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Facebook Calls All-Hands Meeting On Privacy
CWmike writes "A Facebook spokesman said that the company will hold an all-staff meeting on Thursday to discuss privacy issues, but would not say whether executives are looking to make significant changes to the popular site's highly contentious privacy policies following a bevy of changes to the service." (More, below.)
"In an interview with Computerworld last week, Ethan Beard, director of the site's developer network, defended Facebook's policies and even said users love the changes that Facebook has made. However, it seems calls for people to delete their Facebook accounts, which have gathered momentum, have not fallen on deaf ears at the company. Adding to the perception of a crisis on hand, the NY Times profiled on Wednesday a project called Diaspora, which is creating a more private, decentralized alternative to Facebook."
Alright guys, what are we going to do about these damn privacy dweebs?
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
All-hand staff meeting leaks out on /.? Sounds like to me that they have some privacy issues themselves, maybe created by their own product?
Someone should take a picture of the meeting and post it on the web.
Well, they are having a meeting on the topic privacy. There's no word, however whether they want to improve privacy for their customers or exploit it furthermore
...most people associate diaspora with slavery, oppression, and other painful historical memories...
You have a very high opinion of most people's vocabulary.
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure everything I just said is completely wrong.
Fight it with everything you got? Really? Like what? Somehow, I don't think old copies of Bear Party, empty cans of pringles, and that musty smell of your mother's basement is going to make anyone stand up and take notice. Well, maybe the musty smell, but that's not the kind of noticin' you want if you know what I mean.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
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Beating your profile at yahtzee will also destroy it.
My answer? They've got a track record of disrespecting privacy, and now that they've demonstrated that, I'm going to leave Facebook by July 4 if they don't fix everything, and I'm trying to get a million people to do the same.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=117283144970446
Yeah because signing up for another public facebook group is the way to show them you don't want to have your information shared with the world...
Join my new Facebook group, "Dumb Fucks on Facebook"!
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=121016297918475
Granted a) I'm coming in late to this, and b) I'm using Wikipedia,
IRC appeared in 1988 whereas the Short Message Service was defined in 1985.
...so, remember that there were text messages before anyone knew what an "IRC" was.
Remember, kids: you can't spell panopticon without opt-in!
. Greed + ego never ends well and add youth to that and you have a complete nightmare.
What? Look at Bill Gates. He turned out OK.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I'm planning on waiting for a decent alternative, then clearing my profile of everything but a link to the new network. Then for good friend-list obfuscation, I'll send out a few thousand random invites and set my account to auto-accept.