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Privacy, Facebook’s critical issue — and Achilles heel — has come to the fore again. After the company unveiled a program that automatically shared data with special partners and changed the way it tracks people’s interests last month, bloggers and users are up in arms. http://venturebeat.com/2010/05/13/zuckerberg-privacy/

Why Mark Zuckerberg needs to come clean about his views on priva

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The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand « The Jason C

http://calacanis.com/2010/05/12/the-big-game-zuckerberg-and-overplaying-your-hand/
Well I bet they didn’t quite expect that. http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/23/privacy-issues-google-engineers-leaving-facebook-in-droves/

Privacy issues? Google engineers leaving Facebook in droves

http://readwrite.com/2010/05/11/more_web_industry_leaders_quit_facebook_call_for_o A number of high-profile web industry leaders have quit Facebook this week, a turn of events that's sure to heat up conversation about the social network's perceived transgressions.

More Web Industry Leaders Quit Facebook, Call For Open Alternati

Friday is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s 26th birthday. http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/13/the-media-attacks-on-facebook-and-mark-zuckerberg-are-getting-out-of-hand/

The Media Attacks On Facebook And Mark Zuckerberg Are Getting Ou

It’s interesting that lots of people who really don’t like Facebook’s privacy don’t get mad when journalists and bloggers put into public view Steve Jobs’ emails to them. Today I got an email from Mark Zuckerberg, CEO/founder of Facebook. I am not going to be the one to put that into public view until he gives me permission to.

When do you throw a CEO’s privacy under the bus?

http://scobleizer.com/2010/05/23/when-do-you-throw-a-ceos-privacy-under-the-bus/

My Contrarian Stance on Facebook and Privacy

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/05/my-contrarian-stance-on-facebook-privacy.html In a recent Inc Magazine live chat , I found myself, somewhat surprisingly even to me, defending Facebook regarding their ongoing and evolving privacy policy . Here’s what I said: The essence of my argument is that there’s enormous advantage for users in giving up some privacy online and that we need to be exploring the boundary conditions – asking ourselves when is it good for users, and when is it bad, to reveal their personal information.