Identity Theft Check

Facebook has finally admitted that they have made some serious privacy mistakes over the past few months and have promised to simplify the privacy controls on the site.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, has stated that in the next few weeks they will also offer users the option to disable all third-party services. He explained that Facebook wanted to give its users the ability to control privacy settings at a fine granularity level but this has not been what the majority of users actually wanted. Last week it emerged that, contrary to its privacy policy, Facebook passed users names and locations to third parties.
Facebook’s real customers are its advertisers and it is in Zuckerberg’s commercial interests to make user supplied data as widely available as possible. Therefore it will be important to ensure Facebook is checked against delivery of its promises.