Rumours of Facebook privacy changes – but will it be too little too late?

According to media reports, Facebook is planning to announce changes to its privacy settings within the next few days.

Benjamin Cohen, a reporter for the British TV’s Channel 4, has written on his blog that he has spoken to “senior sources” at Facebook who have told him that they plan to acknowledge criticisms levelled against the site:

“Facebook clearly realise that not everyone understands the 50 privacy settings and 170 privacy options that users are currently presented with are confusing users and not everyone has realised that their status updates are so public. Indeed one of the sources say they welcome websites like OpenBook which…

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