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Employee: Zuckerberg 'Doesn't Believe' in Privacy

Which helps explain the new settings

By John Johnson, Newser Staff

Posted Apr 29, 2010 12:33 PM CDT

(Newser) – Two dispatches today from the Facebook privacy wars: In an off-the-record conservation with a New York Times reporter, a Facebook employee laughed when asked how Mark Zuckerberg feels about privacy: "He doesn't believe in it." The reporter tweeted about the exchange, and Bianca Bosker of the Huffington Post notes that it jibes with Zuckerberg's theory that the idea of privacy is evolving and people don't get too worked up about it anymore.

Over at TechCrunch, Sarah Perez complains about the "high-pressure tactics" Facebook is using to get people to link their user accounts to its public pages. "Even for those who actually do consider the implications of everything about themselves being made public, they'll soon encounter another issue. Something that (Facebook) didn't explain in the cheery blog post was what would happen if you refused to link to these new Pages: your profile information will be removed and your profile page will be left empty."

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivers a keynote address at a conference in San Francisco, Wednesday, April 21, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

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bewilderbeast1

Apr 30, 2010 8:00 AM CDT

Got out of facebook a couple months ago. Took a while, but I'm all clear now.

TiredMemeCat

Apr 29, 2010 10:54 PM CDT

Then why does he wear clothes?

youngblood

Apr 29, 2010 9:07 PM CDT

I've been considering 4 weeks now to delete my fb page. But if U do a google on deleting your fb, it's not as easy as you would think. Even though you delete your fb page, theirs tons more of info that you have to go through to really make sure it's truly deleted off fb and the web.

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