This week I was reading a number of articles over facebook’s negligence regarding private information of it’s members. Despite security settings, information has been gathered from its member’s and made easily accessible to outside parties. Of course, this is not a new occurrence; facebook has had to deal with various privacy lawsuits from individual members to privacy investigations from countries.
As much as I’ve enjoyed its services since I created an account in 2004, the constant news regarding privacy issues has me questioning whether facebook is worth maintaining anymore. Information that we disclosure on our page is for those within our network, not for outside industries to target us as consumers. Regardless of whether personal information can be accessed elsewhere, facebook, as a company should have the integrity to respect its member’s, not violate their trust. Enabling outside sources to access member’s information makes it harder for me to maintain respect for a company that I once respected for keeping me connected with the friends that I've made over the years.
Maybe I was naive to trust a company like facebook; I guess my assumption that integrity and ethics still existed was completely off.
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