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Facebook Proposes New Privacy Changes

Posted Wednesday, March 31, 2010 in Computers-Internet-Technology
by Elaine Roxane Winter

Last Friday, Facebook put up a message on their site, notifying users of yet another privacy change to their policy, according to The Washington Post

The new change probably won’t have many Facebook users happy. Under the new proposed privacy policy, Facebook can share its' user data with other social networking sites without getting the user's permission. If users don't want data shared on their Facebook habits, all they need to do is opt out of the service. 

When Facebook first posted about the update, the discussion thread closed earlier than intended because someone put in the wrong closing date.

Read the full article at The Washington Post.

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