Starting today, May 26th, Facebook is going to roll out an entirely revamped privacy settings area for users in response to widespread media criticism following the launch of their new "Instant Personalization" service.

Facebook said that they would post details about the new privacy settings roll-out on their blog. According to a spokesperson for Facebook on May 25th, "Our new, simpler privacy settings are starting to roll out tomorrow evening."

Delete your Facebook? Maybe not such a bad idea after all.

There was a time when the thought of deleting Facebook felt like the loss of a friend, impossible, incomprehensible. The thoughts of losing touch with your Facebook friends, not having your photos shared and tagged, losing the blog posts you've written there and the links you've shared, all stopped you from deleting my Facebook account, even when you knew full well that you had good reasons to do so.

AllFacebook.com reported yesterday that Facebook has called an "all hands meeting" for today, May 13th, at 4:00 PM Pacific time, to specifically discuss Facebook's strategy for users' privacy following widening and intensifying ...

Facebook has come under a lot of fire recently for their repeated incursions into user privacy.

Facebook’s new Instant Personalization features, launched last week despite the protests of a significant proportion of Facebook’s user base, have already caught the attention of the United States Senate – and not in a good way.

Last week Facebook announced the launch of a new set of Facebook Connect features that allow instant "personalization" of your browsing experience at websites like Docs.com and Pandora. The idea is that if you're already logged into Facebook and you visit those sites (and, in the future, many more sites besides those two), Facebook will share a huge amount of your personal, private information with them and allow them to "personalize" your experience.