“It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected,” said social advertising company Fa$ebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said in an open letter which stated: “Starting with the very first version of Facebook five years ago, we’ve built tools that help you control what you share with which individuals and groups of people. Our work to improve privacy continues today.” Seeing ‘open and connected’ in the same sentence as Zuckerberg was something of an oxymoron , p2pnet noted. Now, “Facebook is nudging the settings toward the ‘disclose everything’ position,” the BBC has Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the US Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic) stating, going on, “That’s not fair from the privacy perspective.” Epic said it’s “analysing the changes” to see if they amount to “trickery,” says the story.

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Do Facebook changes amount to ‘trickery’?