This reminds me of the moment Facebook redesigned profiles as "timelines" making it possible for anyone to zoom back 5 years and read status updates that you th

This reminds me of the moment Facebook redesigned profiles as "timelines" making it possible for anyone to zoom back 5 years and read status updates that you thought were lost to obscurity. Was the information always public? Yes. But the difficulty in accessing it meant that only the most obsessive stalker would find their way back to it. Making difficult-to-access public information extremely easy to access is type of privacy change.