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by Steuard 4742 days ago
As long as you're here, any comment on the (current) top-rated comment by lukejduncan? How can we trust that our private information today won't be similarly exposed by a settings change tomorrow? (I hope that nothing I've posted would endanger my relationship with my family, but I know others aren't as safe.)
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I'd like to think we wouldn't need to make such a fundamental change again in the future, but if we did decide it was necessary, I hope that we would give everyone plenty of time to make whatever change to their account was necessary to avoid painful outcomes like that.
"I hope" isn't much comfort.
Random engineers, even awesome ones like Renfro, don't have anything useful to say about what the SVP of Product is going to decide about how facebook.com will behave.