Facebook has yet again raised the issue of privacy amongst its users. This time it's being called 'Beacon in Reverse' - with the proposed changes enabling users of other websites to view your Facebook data.
Facebook connect, the service currently used with third party games and applications, will be updated to include automatically sharing "general information about you to pre-approved third party websites and applications that use platform at the time you visit them". And unlike their previous privacy policies, this one will require you to 'opt-out' if you don't want it.
And this is probably the most controversial part. A great many of Facebook's users already find navigating their privacy and other settings overly complex - thus most choose to ignore them. Will their userbase tolerate another dramatic change to privacy which will result in even more sharing of their data?
See the proposed changes in their entirety..
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