Facebook & Privacy issues

In my last blog post I'll be pointing out an issue that's been bothering me as long as we've had the wonderful, joyous, utterly great Facebook available for use. It is how Facebook ignores and overlooks user privacy issues – and especially how it has the habit of not informing about changes, which are constantly made on different user profile settings, etc.

As I've understood, most of us (at least somehow IT and computer oriented users) are less or more aware of how Facebook is lacking visibility and just not telling, how it handles user privacy issues. Usually we users do not appreciate these things, and it's quite common that from time to time, there's some informative posts on status feed, when someone has found out some new privacy hole or unfair protocol, and users have to inform each other, how to change their settings in order to maintain control for example over it, what it's automatically told about you, for example when your name is simply googled by someone. So, people don't like these thing, but they are tolerated, for the sake of profits using Facebook on the other hand gives.

Below there's a link to a graph which illustrates, how privacy issues of Facebook have evolved over time. It certainly gave me thoughts, hopefully it will for someone else too...

http://mattmckeon.com/facebook-privacy/

PS. I tried to find some paper that would introduce a good guideline for privacy ethics on social online services and communities, but didn't find any (only marketing and consumer privacy papers were found). It would be interesting to read some paper related especially on social services...