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The more we do online, the more data we leave behind. The ACLU of No. California believes it’s time to pass new privacy laws -- we shouldn't have to choose between the Internet and keeping control of our personal info.

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Donald

Donald

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Facebook has been hoping that the new privacy changes would just blow over. Unfortunately for Facbeook, a group of ten privacy and consumer groups ...
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Demand Your dotRights Campaign Our resource page has been updated with information on the new search privacy settings, as well as an update about what is currently being indexed by search engines such as Google and Bing.

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Contrary to some rumors, Google indexing public Facebook profiles is not a new development. It has been happening for the last two years. What is relatively new is the indexing of public wall posts and status updates.
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Facebook is making a distinction between what's "visible" and what's "accessible." After people complained, they gave back the ability to hide your friends list on your public profile. However, they are saying this is just a "visibility" setting, and that it doesn't affect the fact that your friends list is still accessible to applications and ... See Morepossibly to third party websites.
See for example the top of this blog post: http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=197943902130
They say: "Now when you uncheck the "Show my friends on my profile" option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won't appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while logged into Facebook or logged out. This information is still publicly available, however, and can be accessed by applications."
Very confusing, I agree, and a distinction a lot of people are going to miss.
Yesterday at 9:36am
Bunny
Bunny
You're right. That's unacceptable. A solution would be if Facebook included a setting that allowed us to opt out of appearing in our Friends' list as viewed by others, but still allowed us to appear in their privately viewed lists to allow them to manage their lists (e.g. add a friend to a particular list they've created.) It's the right thing to do. The current system discourages those who want privacy from having friends—exactly the opposite of what's in Facebook's best interest.
Yesterday at 12:21pm
Brenna

Brenna Thanks for starting the petition. Facebook's new settings are ridiculous and apparently not completely fixable.

December 14 at 6:23pm · Report
Jens

Jens Please have a look at my video on facebook's new privacy settings. Please remember to comment on it.
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=231093490585

Should you have problems to view this video, you can also see it on http://www.facebook-privacy.org - If you think other people can gain something from this video, please post a comment. Short or Long it doesn't matter. If you comment, the video will spread by itself through the facebook user community.
Length:14:50
Zaara

Zaara can you make facebook RESTORE the old settings or make the profile picture private to non friends on facebook :S

December 13 at 12:38am · Report
Demand Your dotRights Campaign
Demand Your dotRights Campaign
Sadly we can't "make" Facebook do anything, but we can certainly encourage them: If you haven't yet, please sign our _new_ petition asking Facebook to give you better control over your personal information: https://secure.aclu.org/site/SPageNavigator/CN_Facebook_Privacy_Petition
December 14 at 11:09am
Milly

Milly Don't really like what fb has done. I like it the way it was before where ur profile is private and no information can be seen unless we wantt them too.

December 11 at 8:43pm · Report
Demand Your dotRights Campaign

Demand Your dotRights Campaign As Facebook's decision to allow you to hide hide friends list shows, if you demand your dotRights, Facebook really does listen! So please help us keep the pressure on Facebook to give you better controls over your personal information by signing our NEW petition (even if you already signed the old one).

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In response to pressure about its privacy practices, including your support of our previous efforts, Facebook released a new privacy policy, modified its privacy controls, and rolled out a “transition tool” to guide all 350 million Facebook users through the changes it has made.
André van Cleeff
André van Cleeff
Yes, a nice Facebook privacy policy is great, but how useful is it when all our private data is still transferred in plain text across the internet, avalaible for everyone to intercept?

I realize the danger of being rude, but the idea that our privacy is now protected is nonsensical.

Adequate privacy protection requires SSL encryption of all communications with Facebook!... See More
For a start.
December 13 at 4:03am
Don Cornelius
Don Cornelius
WE, not fb, need to be able to decide what information is public and what isn't.
December 13 at 9:38am
Demand Your dotRights Campaign

Demand Your dotRights Campaign Great news: Facebook is going to allow you to hide your Friends list again.

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Some members took issue with the fact that Facebook's new privacy settings exposed their list of connections, so Facebook has pulled back a bit on it. Read this blog post by Caroline McCarthy on The Social.
Deb
Deb
I think my latest issue of MacLife has just this information, how to manage what individuals on our Friends List see - unless that is what FB took away this week ... the article describes a multi-step process, but it sounds like what you are trying to do.
December 11 at 4:10pm
Brandon L'Heureux

Brandon L'Heureux  Demand Your dotRights Campaign We've updated our Facebook transition resource page to compare the application privacy settings from the old and new regimes. As we've pointed out before, there is an 'app gap' that can allow any quiz or application run by you to access information about you and your friends. The link sho...uld take you right to the pert...inent subheading on our resource page.

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Application Privacy Settings - Widening the "App Gap" - Comparison of old and new application privacy settings.
December 10 at 4:48pm
Demand Your dotRights Campaign

Demand Your dotRights Campaign We've updated our Facebook transition resource page to compare the application privacy settings from the old and new regimes. As we've pointed out before, there is an 'app gap' that can allow any quiz or application run by you to access information about you and your friends. The link should take you right to the pert...inent subheading on our resource page.

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Application Privacy Settings - Widening the "App Gap" - Comparison of old and new application privacy settings.
Sherry
Sherry
The new privacy settings are doublespeak.
December 11 at 5:38am
Bunny
Bunny
Sherry, I couldn't agree more. They've spread them over several different pages and provide only fragments of the info on each. To really get a picture of what you can and cannot control, you have to read many different posts. And then they change the feature and post about the change but don't bother to update the old posts, so people are still reading them and getting false information.

It would so easy for FB to present the information in a table format rather than a wordy paragraph format. The table could show a column for old permissions, a column for the corresponding new permissions, a column for the the specific type of data each permission affects (e.g. status updates, friends list), a column for settings options for each permission, and a column that tells what each setting means in terms of who can see it and under what conditions.

How hard could that be? I'd do it myself if I were sure I had a perfect understanding of the new permissions. I have a good understanding, but I can't be sure it's 100% complete, and I don't want to disseminate inaccurate information.... See More

I think FB doesn't publish such a chart because then users would be equipped to protect their privacy, defeating FB's whole purpose in introducing the new settings, which is to expose your name and information to as many people as possible, potentially increasing your number of friends and giving advertisers a field day.
17 hours ago
Maranatha

Maranatha So when I go to the new "applications" privacy page, it says how applications can get info etc etc and it has a long list of things that are currenty unchecked. Am I suppose to check them if I *dont* want applications to access them, or not? It's not really explained in so many words.... Tricky tricky. What does everyone else suggest?

December 9 at 10:53pm · Report
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We'll be adding a section to our resource page on this, but you are right that the wording is unclear. As long as it works like it did before, unchecking the boxes should mean that the information is *not* shared with applications your friends run.
December 10 at 10:38am
Maranatha
Maranatha
Thank you!
December 10 at 12:58pm
Jan

Jan Did you guys see this? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/relevance-meets-real-time-web.html Facebook themselves posted it in my feed. I see NOTHING in there that says only content which FB users have explicitly chosen to be public to 'everyone' will show up in results. So I removed all my personal information from... my profile and am not posting anything anymore. FB has broken their own TOS and put millions' of people's security at risk.

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Search is a natural starting point for discovering the world's information, and we strive to bring you the freshest, most comprehensive and relevant search results over an ever expanding universe of content ...
Demand Your dotRights Campaign

Demand Your dotRights Campaign Wondering how to hide your friends list under the new Facebook privacy settings? Unfortunately, you no longer can completely, but here's the best you can do: http://dotrights.org/what-does-facebooks-privacy-transition-mean-you#_Friend_List . There's no way we have found to remove it from your search listing or control which friends see it, however.

dotrights.org
**This page will be updated with more detailed information as soon as we examine the privacy transition tool in more detail**
Oldboy
Oldboy
one should be able to control their privacy to the fullest on a social network or any web app ... things you post as a joke can cost you a job, your house, your family, your 'freedom', your future ... but because they don't well there's a market for help
December 10 at 11:00pm
Demand Your dotRights Campaign

Demand Your dotRights Campaign Make sure you don't lose privacy when you go through the new privacy transition tool! Check out our Facebook Transition resource page for info on the changes and quick tips on how you can keep your private information private.

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**This page will be updated with more detailed information as soon as the privacy "transition tool" goes live and we are able to examine it in detail**
Demand Your dotRights Campaign

Demand Your dotRights Campaign Hey Facebook user! Starting later today you'll go through Facebook's new privacy “Transition Tool” and choose new privacy settings. It's great that Facebook is making all users think about privacy, but we are concerned that the tool encourages some of us to make our privacy protections disappear. Stay tuned for our Fa...cebook transition resource page with privacy tips and details on how to keep your private info private.

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www.aclunc.org
Facebook has announced several changes to its privacy controls, including a
Rick
Rick
This is good! We need everything we can get now to keep our privacy intact!
December 9 at 8:12am