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Facebook Fesses Up: User Privacy Is Fading

Facebook made it more clear to users that they have less privacy than ever. No longer will the social giant ask users, “Who can look up your Timeline by name?” As TechCrunch reports, “Facebook is removing this privacy setting, notifying those who had hidden themselves that they’ll be searchable.” And good thing, it suggests, considering that Graph Search already makes it easy for users to be found on Facebook. “Keeping this privacy option around gave people a false sense of security.”

 


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