So, in a press release yesterday (I think it was yesterday), Zuckerberg announced that they were "made aware of" problems with their privacy, and they had their engineers rethink, and fix the issues.
From now on, the defaults for your settings are set close to what your other settings are (eg. if you use Friends of Friends for other settings, it'll be the default in the future).
Furthermore, instead of over 50 settings over 7 pages, with a word count higher than that of the US constitution, there are something like 15 settings, as well as presets that go from super private to super public (my words, not theirs).
I, for one, am glad about these changes, but don't quite trust Facebook yet. It's about time they listen to consumer feedback about these issues, and hopefully they'll keep it up.
Source
-kon
From now on, the defaults for your settings are set close to what your other settings are (eg. if you use Friends of Friends for other settings, it'll be the default in the future).
Furthermore, instead of over 50 settings over 7 pages, with a word count higher than that of the US constitution, there are something like 15 settings, as well as presets that go from super private to super public (my words, not theirs).
I, for one, am glad about these changes, but don't quite trust Facebook yet. It's about time they listen to consumer feedback about these issues, and hopefully they'll keep it up.
Source
-kon
