Facebook Privacy Boosted As Private Message 'Leak' Is Dismissed 44
judgecorp writes "Claims that old private Facebook messages have been leaking onto people's Timelines have been dismissed by the French privacy watchdog, CNIL. Apparently, as many concluded early on, the "leaked" messages were just old Wall-to-Wall posts, that users had mistakenly believed were private. Given the lack of user understanding, now is a good time for Facebook to revamp its privacy help pages. Let's hope users pay attention, and Facebook genuinely resists exploiting their naivety." Update: 10/04 17:42 GMT by T : Maybe we shouldn't be so hard on Facebook; Mark Zuckerberg says keeping up with a billion users makes it tough to follow all that data.
"Facebook" and "privacy" in the same sentence (Score:5, Insightful)
Surely we can all agree that "Facebook Privacy" is an oxymoron.
Re:Some people still don't believe it (Score:4, Insightful)
To be fair, it only had to be better than myspace.