Just a month ago, Facebook overhauled the privacy settings for its 350 million or so users and was targeted in an FTC complaint as a result — yet company CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday suggested that online privacy has faded in importance in recent years. “When we got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was, ‘Why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a Web site?'” Zuckerberg recounted in an interview at the The Crunchies Awards in San Francisco.
It was out of privacy concerns that I never joined Facebook or mySpace or those other social networking sites because all a business has to do is change its mind and suddenly the agreement between them and their clients vanishes. What kind of consequences will Facebook have if someone makes a legal case out of it?
Best thing for everyone is to cancel your Facebook accounts and start over again.
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Zuckerberg: Facebook Is Helping People Avoid All That Unwanted Privacy
Posted by: Katherine Noyes January 11, 2010 12:43 PMJust a month ago, Facebook overhauled the privacy settings for its 350 million or so users and was targeted in an FTC complaint as a result — yet company CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday suggested that online privacy has faded in importance in recent years. “When we got started in my dorm room at Harvard, the question a lot of people asked was, ‘Why would I want to put any information on the Internet at all? Why would I want to have a Web site?'” Zuckerberg recounted in an interview at the The Crunchies Awards in San Francisco.
Best thing for everyone is to cancel your Facebook accounts and start over again.