OOPS, they did it again.
For what seems like the umpteenth time, Facebook has apologised for failing to give users enough control over their privacy.
The latest apology comes for a new facial recognition system called Tag Suggestions that was rolled out to users gradually and switched on by default.
"We should have been more clear with people during the roll-out process when this became available to them," the website said today.
It's neatly worded — but then again, you'd expect it be. Over the past five years, Facebook has become expert at doing whatever it wants first and apologising second.
Here are the highlights:
2006: Mark Zuckerberg apologises for the lack of privacy controls built into new features News Feed and Mini-Feed.
"We really messed this one up," the founder says in a blog post.
"We did a bad job of explaining what the new features were and an even worse job of giving you control of them."
2007: Zuckerberg issues another personal apology, this time for the controversial Beacon feature which displayed purchases users made on other websites to their friends.
"I'm not proud of the way we've handled this situation and I know we can do better," he says.
2010: Zuckerberg admits to blogger Robert Scoble that Facebook has a poor record when it comes to protecting user privacy and promises to do better.
"I want to get stuff right this time," he says of new products.
"I know we've made a bunch of mistakes, but my hope at the end of this is that the service ends up in a better place.
"Our intentions are in the right place and we respond to the feedback from the people we serve."
2011: Facebook apologises for Tag Suggestions. No word from Zuckerberg himself this time, though.
"Tag Suggestions are only made to people when they add new photos to the site, and only friends are suggested," the site says.
"If for any reason someone doesn't want their name to be suggested, they can disable the feature in their Privacy Settings.
"When we announced this feature last December, we explained that we would test it, listen to feedback and iterate before rolling it out more broadly.
"We should have been more clear with people during the roll-out process when this became available to them."
Facebook says it has more than 600 million members around the world. Tag Suggestions is designed to make it easier to identify friends in photos.
news.com.au 7 Jun 2011In the world of programming there is no such thing as
"oops I am sorry I put that code in accidentally",
for example to capture your Wireless LAN passwords, whilst we were taking photos of your street (Google).
These moves are deliberate and a test of the technology that will be implemented in the future.
What the masses may not be aware is that the agenda is to catalogue every person possible on the planet.
This is done via private companies so that the masses will not be aware that this informatation will be available to the governments.
This is done in front of the world stage, and given the plausible excuse of 'oops where sorry' we did not mean to do this, you can turn it off.
In the western world communism is taught to be an evil, even though it is financed by the western powers.
The cataloguing of the masses is a communist practice, which may indicate the tendency of the current world governments, in order to enslave the populous.
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