Following the news of facebook users reaching 500 million, it is now said that the personal details about 100 million facebook users have been collected and published by an intelligence agent.
This guy has used a code to collect the profile information of these users who have chosen the improper customizations for their information. This has resulted in their information being disclosed to public.
The publisher claims that his reason for publishing this information is to attract public attention to “privacy issues” more than before. At the same time, facebook claims that the publication of this information is not a disclosure of personal information, since the users themselves had made them available to public.
The internet file of this information is widely distributed in the internet. The list of these files has been downloaded and shared by more than 1000 people in www.thepiratebay.org, which is one of the biggest file sharing websites.
Every time a criticism like this is attacking facebook, it claims that they are the users themselves who put their information accessible to others. But there are still many experts accusing facebook of trying to make people be more open on their privacy options, which they think is not acceptable.
It seems that the facebook team is intentionally ignoring the negative aspect of their privacy policies. Many experts believe that the privacy policies of facebook difficult and sophisticated and not straight-forward. Facebook claims people are the ultimate owners of the information and they can decide what to share with whom!
The privacy issue with the facebook is that many users have not yet understood the privacy policies of facebook which has resulted in cases like this.
Although it has been claimed that the problems have been solved with the new privacy settings, but some information (e.g. profile picture, gender) are disclosed anyway, unless you remove them!
While I was reading these news about privacy policy of facebook, I thought why not quit?!
Check this website out : www.quitfacebook.com
In the next notes, I’m going to talk more about it. Meanwhile, you take that into consideration! ;)
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