Doc and I don’t always see eye to eye on questions of implementing the privacy goals we share, but his pushback on FaceBook’s change of policy is on the nose, in my book. I’d have no problem with FB exposing its members (so to speak) if that was part of the original deal. But as a change in policy, it stinks. FB has become too important to too many people to make it easy to leave — important because of what we users brought to FB: our friends, relationships, and time. danah, to no one’s surprise, also has a terrific post on this.

FB could make this right with about two lines of code: Make exposing your FB info to search engines a matter of checking a box. What part of “opt in” does FB not understand? [Tags: facebook doc_searls danah_boydprivacy ]

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