You are bound to attract attention from Law as you get famous or grow more prominent. We have seen it happening on the Web with giants like Microsoft and Google and Facebook as well, to name a few. Today however the largest social network fell prey to law enforcement agencies in Europe and the reason being that Facebook lacks better privacy options for children.
European commissioner for information society, Vivian Reding stated that Facebook should make its privacy options for kids more safer. The idea of a law institution taking the talk up to the social networks and surprisingly enough more than two dozen of the social sites promised to improve their settings. Each one except for Facebook. The demand of the commission was that it wants all profiles for kids on such sites to be private, especially Facebook which offers too many options for privacy.
Irrespective of all demands being made and people, put aside kids, dislike the public by default privacy setting. Everything is public and you have to manually set things like, statuses, photos, etc to be private. Obviously this will arouse agitation from the commission and Facebook might very well end up facing charges in a court and continuing with this methodology it will very soon be left alone. What’s worrying here is the fact that 19 social networking sites have already accepted the terms of the commissioner, leaving only half a dozen more and I can bet Facebook will be only one left with user data being public.
I have said it many times, over and over again, people loved Facebook for its privacy and I am being very honest. There isn’t any point in trusting the social networking site that is making your data available to everyone by default. What do you think Facebook should do? Do you like the present settings of Facebook?
