By Meena Kar
Dec 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Leading social networking website Facebook is facing heaps of criticism from civil liberties campaigners due to its newly introduced private settings policy. With its new private settings policy, the civil liberties campaigners fear that the technology can drastically increase the personal information that the users update online.

According to the sources, the developments took place on the 9th of December when a pop was rolled out on the website which asked the facebook users to update their privacy settings. Since then there has been a mass uproar among privacy groups including the American Civil Liberties Union. The group sternly opposed the move that has been introduced by the leading social networking website and termed is as “flawed” and “worrisome”.

The new developments allows approximately 350 million facebook users to change the settings of the videos, photographs and other items that they put up on the website. The status updates of the users have automatically been made public unless been specified. The campaigners have stated that the new technology will loosen the users grasp over their personal information that they previously chose not to share with anyone. According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the new changes that has been inculcated in the privacy settings will force the users to share personal information more than before.

On the other hand the facebook officials have reportedly bogged down the allegations. According to the authorities, the new “privacy” settings will be beneficial for the users to manage their updates and that the new settings does not “trick” the users to reveal their personal information that they do not want to share.