I'm not that active on Facebook, but I've been dimly aware of the evolving privacy problems. I haven't decided whether to delete my FB account. I am going to follow Bobbi L. Newman's how-to, and possibly more.
How-tos and groups on quitting facebook
- April 20 2010 from Consumerist How To Delete Your Facebook Account
- April 22 2010 from Bobbi L. Newman at Librarian By Day How To Opt Out of Facebook's New Instant Personalization
- May 5 2010 from Jason Perlow: Lockdown or Death for your facebook profile
- May from Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols at PCWorld How to keep your privacy safe(r) on Facebook
- May 10 2010 from Read Write Web How To Delete Your Facebook Account
- Facebook Group: June 15 -- Delete Your Facebook Account Day
- Facebook Group: 1,000,000 to leave Facebook by July 4
- Facebook Group 20.10 2010
Sources (in no particular order)
- July 16, 2009: Report on Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) complaint against Facebook
- April 26, 2010 from Dan Yoder at Rocket.ly: Top Ten Reasons You Should Quit Facebook
- May 2 2010 from Adrian Perez at PrimeVector Why I Cancelled My Facebook Account
- May 3 2010 from ReubenR at Deobfusticate: Facebook's Anti-privacy monopoly
- May 5 2010 from Dan Yoder at Rocket.ly You Should Still Quit Facebook
- May 6 2010 from Heather Kelly and Nick Mediati at MacWorld Facebook Secretly Adding Apps
- May 7 2010 Goodbye, Facebook
- May 11 2010 Facebook Executive Answers Readers' Questions (NYT)
- May 13 2010 from JR Raphael at PCWorld: Facebook and Privacy: What A Mess
- ACLU's Petition: Facebook Privacy Petition
- Creating a Network Like Facebook, Only Private (NYT):
- Diaspora
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Coverage
- December 9 2009 Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
- April 19 2010 Facebook Reduces User Privacy Controls
- April 28 2010 Facebook's Eroding Privacy Policy: A Timeline
- April 29 2010 Facebook's "Evil Interfaces"
- May 4 2010 Six Things You Need To Know About Facebook Connections
- May 13 2010 Facebook Should Follow Its Own Principles
- Partial List of Boing Boing Coverage
- December 6 2008: Facebook and the Social Dynamics of Privacy
- January 11 2010 Interview with Facebook employee raises further concerns
- April 20 2010 Facebook further reduces privacy controls for users
- April 24 2010 Facebook's eroding privacy policies (timeline)
- April 29 2010 What data does Facebook publish about you?
- May 3 2010 Infographic: Facebook's "anti-privacy monopoly"
- May 7 2010 Emails Facebook sends leak user IP address
- May 11 2010 Go Ahead, Quit Facebook, but they'll they'll retain and data mine your info
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