Maybe Facebook does care about privacy after all
Facebook
dominates the social networking landscape with a huge lead over rival
MySpace in the U.S. and other markets. The company has started to
feel the heat of its success though with more of a demand to turn a
profit for the huge amount of users and traffic the social network
generates. The big problem for users of Facebook is that to generate
money, Facebook wants to share more of their private information with
third-parties.
Apparently, the pressure to give privacy of
Facebook users more though has been heavy on the shoulders of
Facebook. The social network has now reportedly called an all hands
meeting with the sole topic being privacy. All
Facebook reports
that the meeting
is set to happen at 4pm today and the topic will be the overall
privacy practices of the company.
Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg has famously stated in the past that internet
users don’t have the same expectation of privacy today as they used
to. This lead to reports that claimed Zuckerberg didn’t
care about privacy. The privacy concern was so disturbing for
many users that Senator Charles Schumer got involved and sent
a letter to Facebook asking it to redo its privacy policy
and threatened to introduce legislation if privacy was not
addressed.
There are no official details about topics at the
meeting, but the much-debated "Instant Personalization"
feature is sure to be on the schedule at the meeting. This feature
drew the ire of Schumer for sharing information with third parties
without getting the express permission of the user. That is far from
the only feature of Facebook that has raised privacy concerns for
millions of Facebook users and privacy advocates. Hopefully more
details will emerge after the meeting as Facebook looks to regain
some of its lost luster with users.
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