Is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg Tone Deaf About Privacy?

Remember the uproar when Facebook made your list of friends, pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region and networks publicly available to everyone? Now, the social networking behemoth has silently enabled facial recognition software without your permission under the rather benign tag "Suggest photos of me to friends." Even if you choose to disable the option, Facebook still will have the technical ability to connect your name with your image. Full Story »

Posted by Barry Grossheim

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Randy Morrow
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by Randy Morrow - Jun. 15, 2011

Even if you choose to disable the option, Facebook still will have the technical ability to connect your name with your image. Mark Zuckerberg might say his company is just evolving on privacy – —- My concerns go deeper: once data is available to third parties, however temporarily, the cat is out of the bag and beyond retrieval. And it’s not just this constant meddling with our settings that’s releasing our information – there are also security holes, not to mention scams and release of our data by third-party apps, —- And I’m also concerned about the front doors – also back doors—available for governments, including our own, which has been surveilling such security “risks” as the Quakers and calling Virginia opponents of mountaintop removal “terrorists” (pdf) (while excluding the Ku Klux Klan).

Combine the privacy concerns of FB with the new surveillance powers of the FBI (FB would be a source they would utilize) as described in this article:
http://newstrust.net/stories/6652274/toolbar?go=review&ref=mp and begins to seem that we are constantly under some sort of observation and privacy is a quaint 20th century idea.
PS
Well done Beth!

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