September 22, 2006
After a Redesign, Facebook Hastily Offers New Privacy Protections
Days after redesigning Facebook, the popular social-networking Web site, to offer two new features, the site's creator responded to an outcry that the features violated users' privacy by enabling people to turn the features off.
Since a September 5 redesign, users have been greeted by a "News Feed" when they log on to the site. Functioning like an RSS feed, the News Feed compiles a list of every change that everyone tagged as a friend has made on Facebook. When friends update their
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