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."

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.

Facebook's experiment in Open Site Governance is officially a complete and total failure.

 The Federation of German Consumer Organizations, and umbrella group representing 42 consumber associations are up in arms about facebook's privacy policy.  More specifically they are upset about facebook policies for providing personal information to third party websites without authorization or knowledge by consumers.  they said, "If protection of your personal data is important to you, we can only advise users to oppose the planned changes, and together with their friends to choose another operator"

Facebook's latest scheme - to share your private data with anybody they want, whether or not you agree ahead of time to let them do so.

That's according to a Facebook blog post this week that's a clear attempt to head off another potential PR nightmare stemming from increasing privacy concerns surrounding the world's largest social network.

According to the blog post:

Over the last couple of days Facebook has been rolling out a three-step process to migrate users from the old privacy settings to the new ones. All Facebook users may not yet have been presented with the updated privacy settings or the three-step migration wizard, but they should encounter it within a few days, whenever they next log in to their Facebook accounts.