Facebook introduces new privacy controls

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In another PR stunt Facebook, The Bastion of no privacy comes up with a feature that it says will prevent cyber bullying and allow users to control their "privacy" on the site.

Now, instead of hiding privacy controls deep under a load of hard to find menus and options when you are tagged in a post or a photo/video you will be able to confirm or dismiss that tag before it shows up on your profile.

Facebook's photo tagging was widely abused by malware creators and used to trick users into authorizing apps which were designed to steal as much personal data as possible. Also due to lack of controls anyone could put a nasty pic of something and tag it with your name - now you will be able to prevent that from appearing anywhere before you approve it.

Once you look past the headlines and "new features" you will see Facebook is endangering your privacy even more by introducing "Universal tagging". Universal tagging allows you to tag anyone even if that person is not on Facebook. By doing that Facebook hopes you will help them create the largest face recognition database on earth.

I would strongly advise you to never give them your real date of birth and your cell number and if you really can't live without social networks then at least learn how to protect your data and don't give out all your info to every Joe Blogs that requests it.