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Discontent Over Facebook Privacy Changes Remains
By Kenneth Corbin
December 14, 2009

E-tailers marketing to the Facebook crowd may be aware that security and personal privacy are big issues dogging the social networking company. Have you checked the new security policy changes on your Facebook account or given thought as to how they might impact your marketing? eSecurityPlanet.com looks at the latest reaction to the security changes.

It wouldn't be a major announcement from Facebook if it weren't met by howls of protest.

The latest follows yesterday's revamp of the company's privacy features, a process that will require all Facebook users to update the settings that determine how widely accessible the information they post to their profiles will be.

Facebook billed the changes as a consumer-friendly overhaul that would give users simpler and more granular controls over their information, but some digital rights and privacy advocates rushed to criticize the move.

Specifically, they worry that as users are prompted to update their controls, Facebook set the default setting for status updates, photos, and other posts to "everyone," meaning that that information would be open to the entire Web, not just the Facebook community.

Read the full Facebook security story

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