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Posted by: David Bunch

Facebook is the latest social networking site to have privacy issues. In this case, they amended some of their protocol for linking-and listing-user's information.

Anyone who isn’t comfortable having some or any of their personal information included in the feeds can now have it removed. Facebook is also auto-removing some of the data that people complained about most - status changes, groups added, etc. (see screen shot below shows the settings). This is an excellent example of a company listening to its users and quickly pushing intelligent changes, in a transparent manner, to deal with a problem. Facebook is growing up, in a good way.

And so the privacy issue goes...