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While Facebook continues to attract condemnation for its contentious privacy policies, the social networking website may also be providing valuable lessons to young’uns about how to manage their online reputations, says Esther Dyson.

Facebook has caved in to public pressure and reworked its privacy controls. But are users actually gaining anything back, or just a false sense of security? Valleywag breaks it down.

Yes, the internet has killed privacy — at least as we know it — but a world with no secrets is a far more interesting place, says Steven Johnson.

Openbook is a new project that allows you to search Facebook’s publicly available user data to see all the skeletons in its 500 million online closets — including yours.

So you want to ditch Facebook over their privacy policy and because all the cool kids are doing it — but you still want to see embarrassing pictures of your friends? Lifehacker explains how.

Amidst growing concerns about Facebook’s privacy policy, more and more users are committing “Facebook Suicide” and deleting their accounts altogether. Now the movement has its own D-day: May 31.

A simple but rather scary interactive infographic showing how the privacy of your personal data on Facebook has been eroded over the past five years.

When the Gizmodo editor’s house was raided recently over the leaked iPhone, it was done by a shadowy outfit called the Rapid Enforcement Allied Computer Team. So what is it, and who’s in charge?

How do security professionals monitor their kids’ internet and mobile phone usage? Professionals explain how to totally destroy your teenager’s privacy and social life.

PC World lists 21 things “they” don’t want you to know — and how to get around them: spying ISPs, the printer ink price scam, hacked pacemakers, what Google knows about you, and more.

Your reputation has been ruined, says Michael Arrington: yep, yours and everyone else on the internet. Twitter and Facebook have made it too difficult to keep those skeletons in your closet, so quit fighting it and embrace a future of anti-anonymity.

The recent hacking attack on Google in China is proof of what privacy activists have been worrying about for years: that Google has created a “honey pot” of information, bound to attract the interests of authoritarian governments.

Don’t think for a minute that Google are defying China out of the goodness of their own heart.

Facebook’s widely derided new privacy policy isn’t just a case of poor judgment, says Valleywag: it’s a very calculated move to control your privacy — and a massive betrayal of users’ trust. Facebook has turned evil.