More on expectation of privacy

More on my earlier post, do you expect any privacy on social networking sites? Here is another instance

http://www.startribune.com/local/west/13663951.html

Before registering at these sites (if you absolutely have to) I suggest you read their privacy policy.

I want to list some of the very important ones

• "Facebook helps you share information with your friends and people around you. You choose what information you put in your profile, including contact and personal information, pictures, interests and groups you join"

• "When you enter Facebook, we collect your browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all Facebook visitors. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies.""

• "We recommend that minors over the age of 13 ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet."

• "Facebook Beacon is a means of sharing actions you have taken on third party sites, such as when you make a purchase or post a review, with your friends on Facebook. In order to provide you as a Facebook user with clear disclosure of the activity information being collected on third party sites and potentially shared with your friends on Facebook, we collect certain information from that site and present it to you after you have completed an action on that site. You have the choice to have Facebook discard that information, or to share it with your friends."