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Facebook Throws Privacy Advocates a Bone

Posted by Soulskill on from the a-very-small-bone dept.

sarysa writes "In response to a week-long assault by privacy advocates, and following a well publicized all-hands meeting, Facebook has introduced two new security features in response to privacy concerns. One feature allows users to whitelist devices associated with a Facebook account, and the other allows users who verify their identity to view previous logins. While both are useful features, they do nothing to address the recent privacy complaints."

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  1. BFD by Vinegar+Joe · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nobody is sticking a shotgun to anyone's head and forcing them to use Facebook.

    --
    "The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
    1. Re:BFD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      If you stay off of Facebook, your friends and colleagues assume it's because of some anti-social horrible problem with you and treat you very differently.

      Boo-hoo. You need to get a life. And maybe some new friends.

    2. Re:BFD by ZekoMal · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Boo-hoo. Your life has great meaning, if you're posting AC to tell people to get a life. And maybe you should stop assuming that I used my own life as an example.

    3. Re:BFD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Boo-hoo. Your life has great meaning, if you're posting AC to tell people to get a life.

      Said the poster under a fake name...

      Oh, and you need to research the concept of an ad hominem attack and how it's logically irrelevant to the actual argument posited.

      And maybe you should stop assuming that I used my own life as an example.

      Hit too close to home, eh?

      Here's what you posted:

      If you stay off of Facebook, your friends and colleagues assume it's because of some anti-social horrible problem with you and treat you very differently.

      Where the hell did you pull that from, if not your own damn miserable life?

    4. Re:BFD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      I hate to say it, but you are unusual. Go to a college. Any college. Every dorm at my college followed the same path: Facebook friend your room mates and everyone on your floor, so you can chat with them. Then shout responses to their Facebook messages so you can both laugh out loud. I wish I were joking.

      Oooh! You're in COLLEGE!!!. Wow, I'm impressed.

      NOT.

      So, you DO need to get a better life...

      The snarky, yet 'insightful', AC comment claiming that I need new friends (as if I was using my own circle of friends as an example, ha) is a beautiful dream. In the end, the average human being is stupid, and on Facebook. You can either dissociate yourself with the millions of people who use Facebook, or you can swallow your egotistical pride. The choice is yours, although you won't always like the results.

      Yeah, the example you pulled was, umm, your nephew. Yeah, that's it. Your nephew.

      HA HA HA HA HA

      God, you're not only a sheltered twit, you ADVERTISE that you're a sheltered twit with "friends" that would shun you for not being on Facebook.

      And I love how you call everyone on Facebook "stupid" but you had to "swallow your egotistical pride" to associate with them.

      Get over yourself.

  2. Re:Security, not privacy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Facebook's founder is pure evil. He stole the concept for Facebook, has hacked into the email accounts of people, and called people who trust him to keep data private "dumb fucks". All of this is DOCUMENTED and PROVEN.

    Why anyone uses Facebook when these factors are known astounds me.

  3. You fool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    All major social sites are under USA's "security" agencies control for at least 2 reasons, they use your and others data to figure out what the masses are currently about and they also use such public places (including /. of course) for propaganda, like posting anti-Iran propaganda while filtering (removing) critical comments which tell what's really going on (especially if there's proof in the comments).
    You don't have to agree with me, but you have to read non-western media too if being objective means a lot to you.
    Bottom line, don't complain about lack of privacy and security because if you do - it means you're naive and/or stupid at best.
    Now, certainly some smart a$$ should prove his asininity while replying to this comment.