You know how some of your more gullible facebook friends have been posting a status that they think will protect their data from being accessed now that facebook is a publicly-traded company? Your friends are kind of being idiots. Elinor Mills on CNET:
If you’ve been on Facebook this week, you may have seen a status update now making the rounds that purports to explain how to safeguard your privacy on the service. Which sounds great, but for one thing: It’s pretty much bogus… Pretty much everything about the message is inaccurate or misleading… Facebook users — like those of any other site — can’t simply override the site’s Terms of Use agreement with an after-the-fact disclaimer like this one.
Summary: this status is a chain letter, and if you don’t like Facebook’s terms of service, go vote to have them changed or stop using the site.
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