Is Facebook truly sorry for its privacy sins?
Want an expert lesson in how to respond without actually responding and how to apologize without saying you're sorry? Then you need to read Facebook CEO Mark Zukerberg's quasi-mea culpa in today's Washington Post. Do it now; I'll wait.
Zuckerberg's essay comes after more than a month of near silence as Facebook's foes piled on about the social network's rapidly evaporating privacy protections. Until today, the only official response had been from Facebook spokesmodel Eliott Schrage, who tried to deflect the bullets via a smarmy PR session in the New York Times that even Microsoft would find embarrassing.
