Rights advocate groups like the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are not fans of Facebook’s new privacy policies. Yahoo news reports that the controversy came a day after Facebook began requiring users to refine settings to specify who gets to be privy to each piece of content uploaded to the website.
The ACLU’s Northern California technology and civil liberties policy director, Nicole Ozer, said, “If users aren’t careful, the transition tool will transition them to less privacy.”
EFF lawyer Kevin Bankston said in a blog post, “The Facebook privacy transition tool is clearly designed to push users to share much more of their Facebook info with everyone, a worrisome development that will likely cause a major shift in privacy level for most of Facebook’s users, whether intentionally or inadvertently.”
But Facebook director of global communications Barry Schnitt says,”It is not that big of a change…. The process is more transparent and transformative than they give us credit for. When they see how many people around the world have made choices about privacy this will be hailed as a giant step forward.”
For those who may be pushed too far by this, or other Facebook-related issues such as too many strangers wanting to be your friend, or even too many people you know wanting to be in contact, we have a drastic solution: virtual identity suicide.
The L.A. Times Tech Blog told us about Seppukoo.com, which offers ritual suicide for Facebook users’ virtual profiles by deactivating your account. And if you are indeed willing to end it all, the site will give you a RIP memorial page and send the page to all your Facebook friends. But it can all be restored with internet speed. Just log in and your account is reactivated!
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