Facebook: Privacy Made Public

Where is the privacy in Facebook's "Privacy Policy"? The new policy allows more information to be available to the general public. A comparison of the new and old policies reveals this addition:

Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, geographic region, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available to everyone, including Facebook-enhanced applications, and therefore do not have privacy settings. You can, however, limit the ability of others to find this information through search using your search privacy settings.

 

As of Christmas eve, 2009, I have been unable to find any way to privatize this information. You can limit the scope of your search privacy. By default the setting seems to be "Everyone". To change this, go to "Privacy Settings", and then click "Search". On this screen you can choose to allow searching your information with everyone, friends and networks, friends of friends, or friends. You may also "uncheck" the box which allows public search results by search engines, although the results of this change, are yet to be determined.

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