Analysis - Facebook faces witch-hunt over privacy

[HEXUS]

A recurring theme this week has been people queuing up to say Facebook doesn?t do enough to protect its users? privacy.

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[Saracen]

I must admit that any furore over changes in Facebook privacy policy, or in who can see what information, pass me by.

I'm not prepared to give Facebook itself as much as my name and date of birth because I don't trust them with it, so all the rest becomes somewhat academic to me. Hell will freeze over before I'll give them any information. But .... if you sign up and provide personal information, it's naive to think it won't be used. You don't like that, don't sign up.

[cordas]

Facebook have made a rod for their own back, its not as if these fears over security have jumped up out of the blue. These concerns have been raised time and time again over the last few years and FB has resolutely kept its head in the sand and continued to mess around with not just the inbuilt security settings and controls but they have also played foot loose and fancy free with the T&Cs of having a FB account.

That said it isn't the end of the world, but FB do need to get real and give these concerns some serious attention and clamp down lax practices they have taken part in.