Facebook Agrees To Make New Privacy Changes Opt-In 58
An anonymous reader writes "Facebook has reached an agreement with the FTC to make all future changes to privacy settings opt-in, presumably including new features with their own privacy controls. The Wall Street Journal wrote that the social network was nearing a settlement on the issue and now its Marketplace editor Dennis K. Berman says that settlement is for new privacy controls to be opt in. The agreement could limit Facebook's ability to drive adoption of new features, as they won't be able to immediately go viral. Users rarely visit their privacy settings, so Facebook will need to devise a way to get them to do so."
Trivial to circumvent (Score:2, Interesting)
Just rephrase the privacy settings to "don't share my data with everybody" and make these settings opt-in. Status quo preserved. Problem privacy advocates?