If You Want Privacy on Facebook, You Should Pay for It
Not surprisingly, Facebook's half-hearted attempts to kick its data-sharing addiction have not exactly wowed the privacy cognoscenti. Last week a consortium of groups -- including the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse -- wrote an open letter to Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg [PDF] saying essentially what I (and many others) also said after FB's nominal response to the recent privacy uproar: Nice start, but... not enough by half, at least.
Facebook's response? Suck on it, you privacy pantywaists. We're done listening to you. OK, that's not what they said literally, but that's the subtext of their letter, a copy of which you can find on Scribd.
