How Facebook Should Fix Its Privacy Problem This content requires a paid GigaOM Pro subscription

Facebook could try making clearer the distinction between communicating and broadcasting that's at the heart of the latest controversy.

The controversy surrounding Facebook’s latest privacy policy changes was a bit overblown — critics overstated their case (with one calling the firm “the most unethical or clueless Internet company in the world,” though most people simply reverted to their previous settings with a few clicks), and the site sure didn’t help things with the disastrous PR move of suggesting its users lie as a method of privacy control. All that noise may have drowned out the [...]

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