A group protesting Facebook’s privacy policies said Monday more than 30,000 people had heeded its call to quit the social networking giant.
“For us it comes down to two things: fair choices and best intentions. In our view, Facebook doesn’t do a good job in either department,” the organizers, who did not identify themselves, said on their Web site for Monday’s “Quit Facebook Day.”
“Facebook gives you choices about how to manage your data, but they aren’t fair choices.”
The group said that 32,749 had dropped out of the Facebook universe.
Facebook.com is visited monthly by 540 million people, or slightly more than 35 percent of the Internet population, according to Google data.
Facebook is overhauling privacy controls in the face of a barrage of criticism that it is betraying the trust which has made it the world’s biggest social network.
Facebook redesigned its privacy settings page to provide a single control for content and “significantly reduce” the amount of information that is always visible to everyone.
Facebook also said it is giving users more control over how outside applications or Web sites access information at the service.
Critics continue to call for Facebook to make all user information private by default and then let people designate what they want to share case-by-case in an “opt-in” model.
(AFP)
某個抗議社交網站「臉書」隱私權政策的團體週一表示，已有三萬多人響應其呼籲，不再使用這個網站。
不願透露姓名的主辦人員在「拒臉書日」活動網站上表示：「對我們而言，這活動意味著：公平選擇和最佳動機。在我們的眼中，臉書在這兩方面都表現欠佳。」
「臉書讓你選擇如何管理自己的資料，但那些選擇並不公平。」
該團體表示，全球已有三萬兩千七百四十九人關閉臉書帳號。
谷歌（Google）的統計資料顯示，每個月有五億四千萬人點閱Facebook.com網站，約佔網路人口的百分之三十五強。
臉書之所以成為全球最大社交網站，是因為使用者的信賴，背棄這些信賴的臉書面對接二連三的批評，不得不全面檢驗使用者隱私權的管理。
臉書重新設計了隱私設定功能，讓使用者自行決定每個項目的公開與否，「確實減少」資訊暴露在網路上人人可見的程度。
臉書還表示，要給使用者更多的權力，選擇讓外來應用程式與外部網站擷取使用者資料的權限。
批評聲浪不斷呼籲臉書將每位使用者的資訊自動設為私人，並讓使用者可逐項選擇想公開的資料。
（法新社╱翻譯：吳岱璟）
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