Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

[threeringedmoon]

Originally published at Five Acres with a View. You can comment here or there.

Our conclusion? These new “privacy” changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before. Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data.

via Facebook’s New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly | Electronic Frontier Foundation.

I’ve deactivated my Facebook account, pending changes to Facebook’s Privacy Policies.

Comments

[dancinghorse.livejournal.com]

I use fb for business and professional contacts. That means it's more like a public website for me than a "social" setting. I'm keeping it because there's nothing there that I wouldn't post on a public website.

Lesson learned long ago about the Internet. There is no such thing as "privacy" on the web. Anything I don't want published to the world, I keep off the net, period.

I guess it helps to be a hopelessly bitter cynic with zero trust in any organization conceived or run by human beings. They will screw you over. It's their nature.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

And I've always subscribed to the "only write what I would be comfortable seeing on the front page of the local paper" approach myself. I've been on the fence for quite a while about how Facebook handles critical privacy concerns, and they just pushed me off.

[ashcomp.livejournal.com]

How does one "deactivate" a FB account?

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Go to Settings, and deactivate at bottom of page.

[meggins.livejournal.com]

Yah, yah, just ran up against it tonight when I was on FB. Well, I don't use FB a lot, but I know a bunch of people on there who are on LJ, more's the pity.