Facebook Privacy Boosted As Private Message 'Leak' Is Dismissed

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 4, 2012 @03:41AM from the check-the-foundation-for-rot dept.

judgecorp writes "Claims that old private Facebook messages have been leaking onto people's Timelines have been dismissed by the French privacy watchdog, CNIL. Apparently, as many concluded early on, the "leaked" messages were just old Wall-to-Wall posts, that users had mistakenly believed were private. Given the lack of user understanding, now is a good time for Facebook to revamp its privacy help pages. Let's hope users pay attention, and Facebook genuinely resists exploiting their naivety." Update: 10/04 17:42 GMT by T : Maybe we shouldn't be so hard on Facebook; Mark Zuckerberg says keeping up with a billion users makes it tough to follow all that data.

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"Facebook" and "privacy" in the same sentence by logicassasin · 2012-10-04 04:13 · Score: 4, Insightful

Surely we can all agree that "Facebook Privacy" is an oxymoron.

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Re:Some people still don't believe it by vux984 · 2012-10-04 04:56 · Score: 3, Insightful

To be fair, it only had to be better than myspace.