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Facebook has come under fire recently from privacy advocates and even US Senators, but a company exec told Computerworld that any complaining reported is not from real users. According to Business insider the exec claimed it's just noise from "media, organizations and officials."

Facebook Privacy Wars.

Certainly the concerns have some quite excited. Ryan Singel pens a column for Wired.Com titled "Facebook's Gone Rogue; It's Time for an Open Alternative" and leads with an opening worthy of a Hollywood tagline.

Singel claims: "Facebook has gone rogue, drunk on founder Mark Zuckerberg's dreams of world domination."


Matt McKeon has created a visualization of the "Evolution of Privacy on Facebook" that helps capture how the site's privacy protections have changed. He writes: "Facebook is a great service. I have a profile, and so does nearly everyone I know under the age of 60."

After those kind words, he then claims they need to get it together and has the chart here on the changes and reveals "the data for this chart was derived from my interpretation of the Facebook Terms of Service over the years, along with my personal memories of the default privacy settings for different classes of personal data."


Search Engine Land explores more on the privacy issue and asks: "Are there people on Facebook who don't understand how to keep their updates out of the public eye?" Danny Sullivan reveals more on his discoveries.

Are you concerned about your Facebook account?