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Facebook exec defends website’s privacy policies

After enduring a stormy 2010 thus far, where its initiatives to further connect disparate areas of the web and impending user mapping have taken a backseat to rails against its privacy policy, one executive of social site Facebook has stepped forward to address concerns in the international media. Accepting questions regarding Facebook’s approach to privacy through a blog posting and its own Facebook portal , the New York Times compiled a list of consumer concerns, with vice president of public policy Elliot Schrage fielding questions for the recently vilified company. Schrage described reading some of the concerns as “painful”, but said that he and the company empathised with people questioning their policies. “It’s clear that despite our efforts, we are not doing a good enough job communicating the changes that we’re making,” Schrage said. Responding to allegations about the website’s personal data sharing from a reader who asked, “Why can’t you leave well enough alone?”, Schrage insisted that the company would “do better”, and that it is a misconception that Facebook uses personal information for anything other than to target a demographic, likening its activities to that of magazine sales

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Facebook exec defends website’s privacy policies