Privacy concerns is very debatable topic. A lot of Facebook users find it worrying because all of their data is stored in the internet. But Facebook is not the only website that stores private information. Facebook receives as much data as from Microsoft and Google, but a lot less than Yahoo. Facebook had already cases of private data loss. For example in 2007 on some pages the code of the page was displayed rather than a normal page. So anyone could copy that code that has private information in it. And in November 2007 Facebook launched Beacon. This is a system that sends the informations of the users actions to the third-party websites. This was a serious mistake of Facebook. So this system was shut down in 2009. In addition to that the company failed to keep their promise about not sharing users personal information with the advertising companies. And there are a lot or rumors that Facebook sells the identity of their users for money. On of the links below will give you more information on that.
You should always make sure that your profile settings are as confidential as you want them to be. Not the default settings!
You should always make sure that your profile settings are as confidential as you want them to be. Not the default settings!
Above is just the summary of all the privacy issues. It explains that privacy issues are far more deep than we knew.
The link above links to a very interesting article on CNN about the new Facebook will to buy Instagram. Instagram is an application for making photographs. People are worried that such a big social network as Facebook will not be able to keep users images private.
Above is another link that shows an article about the criminal side of Facebook. The article talks over the issue of selling the private information about their users.
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