Facebook Public Policy Director Sparapani on Privacy

The Kojo Nnamdi Show: http://88-5.us/c4lVtA
(May 18, 2010): Facebook Public Policy Director Tim Sparapani defends the company's privacy changes against a recent public onslaught of criticism, citing Facebook's extremely rapid growth as a challenge. "Some of the privacy settings we put in place over a period of years do not actually provide real privacy when you grow that quickly," Sparapani said, which is one of the reasons for the recent adjustments to those settings:

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[Novoa86]

What a crock of crap. Typical PR responses, one after another.

"Oh, please, thank you for comparing us to Microsoft and Google. I am flattered"

Please... he didn't even compare you to Google, and he didn't even mention Microsoft. The fact that FB has to be answering to these kind of questions is already worrying.

[670Kiester]

4:25 "Gift to the public"

You mean Gift to the marketers and all the other data gatherers.

Screw you Sparapani, and of course Zuckerberg

[mistacramer]

@670Kiester

Yes. How is having your conversations with friends broadcast to the world considered a gift?

[jonnybryce]

i love how he talks about giving us more privacy meanwhile all my interests, hobbies, jobs and schools MUST be public or i cant have anything there

thats some privacy!

[atochilin]

Facebook, please hire someone who's going to teach your executives to speak concert language.