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Even Closed Facebook Groups Aren't Private

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Facebook announced Groups this week to "make it easier to share things with a small group of friends." After all, it is great to connect with co-workers, industry contacts and family members on Facebook, but each social network is different--my mom doesn't care about this new Android phone and my boss doesn't need to know about my sister's dog in Australia. Facebook Groups go a long way toward solving this problem. Just don't kid yourself that Groups makes sharing on Facebook any more private or secure.

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Facebook: Privacy Enemy Number One?

Facebook's notable announcements this week range from a holistic vision of a seamless, semantically-enabled Web of human relationships, to a simple "Like" button, which will soon be omnipresent on the Internet. The moves are ambitious, giving even fast-moving rivals like Twitter reason to worry. Still, the simple fact that gets lost in the rush towards ubiquitous social connectivity is that Facebook users still don't know what they are sharing, with whom, or why it matters. In short: Facebook remains a privacy minefield.

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