May 20, 2010
The New York Times decided to write about Facebook’s increasingly-labyrinthine privacy policy and noticed that it is actually longer than the U.S. Constitution: In recent months, Facebook has revised its privacy policy to require users to opt out if they wish to keep information private, making most of that information public by default. Some personal data is now being shared with third-party Web sites. As a result, the company has come under a blitz from privacy groups, government officials and its own users, who complain that the new policy is bewildering and the new opt-out settings too time-consuming to figure out and use. Facebook’s Privacy Policy Now Longer Than U.S. Constitution | Disinformation

The New York Times decided to write about Facebook’s increasingly-labyrinthine privacy policy and noticed that it is actually longer than the U.S. Constitution:

In recent months, Facebook has revised its privacy policy to require users to opt out if they wish to keep information private, making most of that information public by default. Some personal data is now being shared with third-party Web sites.

As a result, the company has come under a blitz from privacy groups, government officials and its own users, who complain that the new policy is bewildering and the new opt-out settings too time-consuming to figure out and use.

Facebook’s Privacy Policy Now Longer Than U.S. Constitution | Disinformation

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