Facebook's Privacy FAIL: Lessons for Designing Privacy in Social Networks

Facebook has dominated the tech news this month since their April 2010 launch of the Open Graph. The problem stems from the new platform changes extending Facebook's ongoing bad habit of violating users actual or perceived privacy.

Facebook's problem with privacy has been both a business and a design problem. Today, Facebook held a press conference announcing major changes to their privacy policy in addition to what looks like a significant change in Facebook leadership's attitude toward user privacy.

In this post, I'll explore the implications of Facebook's failure to take heed to privacy concerns and what it means for designing privacy for the social networking user experience.