In the Inquirer article, Bad Week for Facebook Privacy, by Asavin Wattanajantra on May 7th 2010, Wattanajantra talks about how Facebook has failed at protecting the possibly sensative information of their users, unlike what they have advertised. For example Facebook has been giving, "users' personal information to companies like Microsoft, Yelp and Pandora without first obtaining their consent," allowing these companies to advertise to certain individuals based on their interests posted on Facebook. All of these privacy violations are recent (which comes weeks before this article was written), but unfortunately this is not the first time that Facebook has had questionable ethics with people's privacy, "three years ago, [where] it disclosed personal information, including video purchases and rentals, without users' knowledge or permission." Facebook, the company, has made clear to its users that it is content with disregarding all privacy issues to expand their bussiness. Facebook has violated the people's right to privacy given by the penumbra of rights implied by the Bill of Rights. Chief Justice Warren, laid down a court decision reenforcing this unenumerated right. In our personal opinions, we see that Facebook has possibly let down its users by disclosing more of their personal information than they lead them to believe. While we personally are somewhat dissappointed by this, we mantain that Facebook is still a reasonably satisfactory social networking experience, and while we may monitor our profiles more closely, we don't plan to delete them.
Posted by: TFavaron and EMcKee
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