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Facebook Privacy Changes Draw a Little Concern, a Lot of Apathy

Facebook is proposing another round of changes to its privacy policy. The updates are meant to better explain certain features, said Facebook Deputy General Counsel Michael Richter in a blog post — such as why an invitation that a non-users receives to join Facebook might include the names of persons other than the one who sent the invitation. (It’s because those people have imported their own contact lists to Facebook, and their lists include the invited person’s email address, he said). Some of the proposed changes are raising hackles in the privacy community.