Facebook privacy revamp draws fire!!

Facebook privacy revamp draws fire

Facebook, the world's No.1 Internet social network, took a step toward opening up parts of its site to outsiders on Wednesday by introducing a broad revision of its users' privacy settings.

But Facebook's implementation of the new settings drew quick criticisms from privacy advocates who claimed the changes were pushing Facebook's 350 million-plus users to expose more of their personal information.

"Facebook is nudging the settings toward the 'disclose everything' position. That's not fair from the privacy perspective," said Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.

Rotenberg said his organization was evaluating Facebook's new privacy changes to see if they were deceptive.

"Let me put it this way, right now we're taking a lot of screenshots (of Facebook)," Rotenberg said, when asked if his group might file a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

The move comes as Internet search engines such as Google Inc and Microsoft Corp are increasingly interested in incorporating the growing trove of user-generated content from social media websites into their search results and as Facebook faces competition from rival services such as Twitter, in which all information is viewable to the public.

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