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Re:Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in th... by kjackson on Sunday October 23, 2011 @11:51AM (#3146372)
Facebook does not care about user privacy. They have gone on record saying this multiple times (and then quickly recanted it). They do not care about user privacy because it goes against everything that Facebook needs in order to grow.

For example, if you tag a photo with a friend's name, all of that friend's friends can see this photo, even if you restrict who can see your photos. You cannot change this, which means you have now lost control of your own privacy. I do not want strangers seeing my photos, but I can't prevent this unless I stop tagging photos, which is what I have done.

More importantly, I'm moving away from Facebook because they don't give a fuck about privacy.

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Re:Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in th... by ltamake on Sunday October 23, 2011 @04:55PM (#3147226)
I really hate how Facebook killed the competition because there's no place to go besides G+, and that seems to be targeting a different audience than Facebook. :(

Just because a company is big doesn't mean it has to sell out and stop caring about user privacy.

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Re:Facebook privacy fuckup reveals who has your number in th... by tripzilch on Monday October 24, 2011 @04:12AM (#3148705)
> More importantly, I'm moving away from Facebook because they don't give a fuck about privacy.

Yeah me too, I deleted my profile last week.

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