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Basic engineering approach is to look at the direction and the rate of change to estimate where the system is heading. The decline of privacy in FB has been well documented by EFF among others. FB has taken 900M of investor money. What is their business model to make money? I think this is what worries many people here.

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It's interesting to call it the decline of privacy. That's purely a product of this current hype.

The reality is that if you want it to be facebook is a lot more private now than it was in early 09.

I may have mentioned before that I have several fb profiles with which to do security research. Last year I could have picked up a whole load of information on just about anyone - today, it's either a lot more difficult or insanely easy (mostly the former).

And that "ease" is simply a product of Facebook hiding controls or encouraging people to be open. that is what we need to focus on.

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