Digital rights groups and bloggers have heaped criticism on Facebook’s changed privacy policy.
Critics said the changes were unwelcome and “nudged” people towards sharing updates with the wider web and made them findable via search engines causing further security concerns. Facebook the IT Company said the changes help members manage updates they wanted to share, not trick them into revealing too much.
“Facebook is nudging the settings toward the ‘disclose everything’ position,” said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the US Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic). “That’s not fair from the privacy perspective.”
Epic said it was analysing the changes to see if they amounted to trickery. In a statement, the Electronic Frontier Foundation said: “These new ‘privacy‘ changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before.
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