LONDON
The popular social network Facebook may want to backtrack and restore the settings on the privacy of its members as a result of the pressures received from various user groups, which have recently accompanied the criticism of the U.S. Senate and the European Union.
was revealed by the British broadcaster BBC, quoting a company spokesman that the leaders taking WOULD BE very seriously the criticism of people who accuse the social network of "making things too complicated."
"We are working to respond to these concerns," he told the BBC a spokesman for Facebook. At the end of 2009 the social network has changed "from above" some privacy settings, ensuring that each profile to become accessible to everyone else, unless expressly stated to the contrary by the user. Last month came a further change, that has made Facebook profiles accessible not only to all other members, but to the entire Web
The move was described by Facebook founder Mark Zuckberg an important step towards a "Default Web in a social way," but many people have rebelled considering an attack on their privacy. Much criticism is also the European Commission, in a letter that called it "unacceptable" the changes.
The protests culminated in the organization of the network "Facebook Quit Day 'for May 31, the day that dissatisfied users will show their displeasure by deleting your profile from the network. Facebook is now showing to take very seriously the issue, while stressing that "since the last change of privacy around 10 million new users are entered on the social network."
Source: La Stampa
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