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What stops your friend from copying your facebook data and publishing it on the web?

Courtesy.

More importantly, if I don't want to have someone as my Facebook friend, I have that choice. But I don't have a choice about what policies might be in place at employers my Facebook friends might consider. If you think it through, you begin to see why we have laws related to protecting privacy.

nothing "stops" them... it's called trust. why would a friend do that

Right, but if that trust was valid then you could likewise count on them not allowing an employer, or any third party.

Not if they overlook the problem, as many of the first posters in this discussion did.

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