Thursday 27 December 2012

A Short History of Facebook Privacy Failure



Randi Zuckerberg posted a family snap to Facebook this Christmas. As with many of our snaps, it was funny in context, but a little too candid; you might not want it shared widely beyond your family. Unlike many of our snaps, it contained a billionaire brother in the background. 

Randi was outraged when the snap got broadcast to subscribers, who proceeded to share it on other social networks. She got outraged on Twitter. As a result, the photo she was talking about became widely disseminated. And there you have it: even the greatest luminaries on her brother's billion-strong network cannot always navigate their way in the choppy waters of social media privacy.

Facebook took steps to address this kind of problem last week, when it released a new privacy dashboard -- written in the plainest English possible.

Herewith, in an infographic from a web design aggregator, is a very short list of privacy uproars over the social network's short life:



Published By: Mashable

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