Facebook Privacy Announcement?

Hi,
 
Regrets if this is duplication or "old news" but, in contrast with the media
coverage (high, TechCrunch, even CBS News) I have not seen (any) traffic on
the SWXG list about Facebook's recent (July 1) press conference/announcement
on the topic of the Future of Privacy (I quite like the title ;-).
Apparently this news conference was conducted shortly after our July 1 (most
recent) meeting.
 
Slides here [1] 
 
The first phase of this new program was a 1 week trial with 40,000 US only
users. That should expand to 80,000 users today and be available
internationally.
 
Don't have time to do the in-depth research which this topic clearly
deserves so not sure the best page to point for more information on the
details, but I found these [2], [3] quite useful. 
 
On the same topic, have those on the list concerned with Privacy in Social
Networks already found this paper [4] by Chris Petersen?
 
This is his undergraduate honors thesis for the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst Legal Studies Department
 
Perhaps there should be some contact with him [5] or with the Chief Privacy
Office of Facebook, Chris Kelly. Invited Speakers?
 

Christine 

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[1]
http://www.scribd.com/doc/17010802/Facebook-Privacy-Presentation-July-1-2009
[2]
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009/07/01/live-notes-from-the-facebook-privac
y-conference-call/ 
[3]
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/01/the-looming-facebook-privacy-fiasco/
[4]  http://etc.cpeterson.org/documents/2009/savingface.pdf
[5]  http://etc.cpeterson.org