> As you may have noticed, the Facebook privacy stories are rated very highly here. I think there may be a misunderstanding here. Facebook's problem is not tha

> As you may have noticed, the Facebook privacy stories are rated very highly here. I think there may be a misunderstanding here. Facebook's problem is not that they make information about their users available, but that they do so after having been specifically directed not to. One can have no problem with the former, while being very much against the latter. As this article (posted last week on HN) http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2010/05/14/facebook-and-radical-transparency-a-rant.html said: > The battle that is underway is not a battle over the future of privacy and publicity. It’s a battle over choice and informed consent.