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One small victory against Failbook
and their overbearing (or more like lack of) privacy policies,
TheStar.com | Canada | Canada wins Facebook fightNicole Lace wants to be the one in charge of how much the rest of the world knows about her life. She decides who gets to see her phone number. She decides who gets to see her email address. She decides who gets to see the name of her employer and where she went to high school when people access her profile on the popular social networking site Facebook.
And if one day she decides she no longer wants anyone to see anything at all, then she wants it to disappear forever.
"It is my choice to put it out there, so it should be my choice to completely erase it – not Facebook's," the 25-year-old program coordinator for a non-profit community group in Toronto said yesterday.
That choice is expected to become much clearer as Facebook Inc. has agreed to give its more than 200-million users around the world more power over the way it stores and shares personal information in response to harsh criticism from the Canadian privacy watchdog.
I still won't be using it, but a bit of good news for those that do.