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Ah, so I guess all those people whose phone numbers are streaming through "Evil" or whose updates about their rectal surgery are being exposed through the Open Graph API want this information to be floating around the Web.




The phone numbers thing is really their own fault. Evil is streaming from open "everyone post your numbers" groups.


If people make their profile public, then yes their updates will be made public.


Except if facebook makes their profile public without their knowledge (or consent)...


Except that didn't happen. There's no evidence that a large portion of Facebook's users were confused about the privacy changes in December, yet many people keep repeating that as fact.


Jesus, a guy asks for a citation and gets voted to -4. If it's that dumb a question, post a link to a page with some sourced numbers in it and humble him.


Where was the previous poster asking anything? He stated something blatantly false that could easily be disproven by a simple web search. How does him stating something provably false place the burden of proof on everyone else?


I can't seem to find this proof via a simple web search. Care to assist me?




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