Posts on Facebook and Privacy (2006-2010)

Since 2006, two years after Facebook’s launch and right about when I joined the platform, I’ve been posting on this blog (at least as long as blogging was a thing) about numerous privacy concerns related to the social network.Posts include reactions to the launch of the News Feed, concerns over profile visibility and APIs, Facebook SocialAds & Beacon, and the numerous times Facebook has messed with user privacy settings & controls. Here’s a partial chronology:

• Facebook Changes Cause Rift in Flow of Personal Information (Sept 6, 2006)
• More on Facebook and the Contextual Integrity of Personal Information Flows (Sept 8, 2006)
• Facebook Offers Privacy Fix, But Only If You Select It (Sept 9, 2006)
• Facebook Allowing Profiles to be Crawled by Google (March 29, 2007)
• Personal Data Flows and APIs (May 25, 2007)
• Facebook to Join Behavioral Targeting Game, and Might Win (Sept 7, 2007)
• Bill McGeveran on Facebook, Context, and Privacy (Sept 17, 2007)
• Link Roundup on Facebook, SocialAds, and Privacy (Nov 18, 2007)
• Facebook Mulling Privacy Changes, But Will It Be Sufficient? (Nov 29, 2007)
• Facebook Changes Beacon to How it Should Have Been Designed in the First Place (Nov 29, 2007)
• Dear Facebook, Google: Please Engage in Value-Conscious Design (Dec 2, 2007)
• Facebook Beacon Worse than Most Thought (And Still Is) (Dec 2, 2007)
• Facebook Apologizes (Sorta); Creates Global Opt-Out (Supposedly) (Dec 6, 2007)
• The Illusion of “Private” Web Content (Jan 24, 2008)
• Real Questions for Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer (April 6, 2008)
• Facebook *Really* Wants You to Use Beacon (Sept 19, 2008)
• Facebook’s Zuckerberg on Increasing the Streams of Personal Information Online (Nov 8, 2008)
• Do You Trust This Face? GQ on Mark Zuckerberg (Nov 18, 2008)
• On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information (Except When Facebook Does) (Feb 16, 2009)
• Facebook Recants (Again) (Feb 18, 2009)
• Stutzman’s Suggestions for Facebook to Properly Address User Rights (Feb 19, 2009)
• Facebook’s Attempt at Open Governance (Feb 26, 2009)
• Yes, Privacy Does Still Exist in a Facebook World (March 8, 2009)
• Photo Finder: Automated Facial Recognition on Facebook (March 25, 2009)
• Facebook Hires ACLU Privacy Lawyer, Might Actually Address Privacy (March 29, 2009)
• The Laws of Social Networking: Promote Open Flows of Information, Make Privacy Hard (June 13, 2009)
• Facebook’s New Privacy Paradigm: Boon or Bust? (Dec 3, 2009)
• Facebook’s New Privacy Settings to Launch Today (Dec 9, 2009)`
• Facebook’s Privacy Upgrade is a Downgrade for User Privacy (Dec 10, 2009)
• Facebook Provides Some Control of Friends List Visibility, But Hides It (Dec 12, 2009)
• NPR: Groups Complain To FTC About Facebook Changes (Jan 4, 2010)
• Zuckerberg’s Remarks Aren’t Surprising, Nor New, Nor True (Jan 12, 2010)
• Yet Again, Facebook Misunderstands Privacy (March 29, 2010)
• Another Facebook Exec Talks About Privacy; Another Set of Gross Misunderstandings (May 12, 2010)
• Facebook’s Zuckerberg: “Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity” (May 14, 2010)
• Facebook (and others) Shares Identifiable Information with Advertisers (May 21, 2010)
• If Only Mark Zuckerberg Would Listen to Himself (May 21, 2010)
• Science Friday: Protecting Your Privacy On Social Networking Sites (May 24, 2010)
• My Visceral Reaction to Zuckerberg’s Op-Ed (May 26, 2010)
• True to Form, Facebook Backtracks, Promises Users More Control (some new, and some we used to have) (May 26, 2010)
• OpEd: How to Win Friends and Manipulate People (June 2, 2010)
• Baym: Facebook’s Views on Privacy are “Fundamentally Naive and Utopian” (June 2, 2010)
• Facebook Places Privacy Falls Short: Non-Authorized Check-Ins by Friends are Visible (Aug 20, 2010)
• Facebook Places Privacy Falls Short, Part 2: Opting-Out (Aug 25, 2010)
• Washington Post Essay: Mark Zuckerberg’s theory of privacy (Feb 6, 2014)