A picture of Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg's sister was posted on her personal Facebook profile was posted by a marketing director and posted on her Twitter to her nearly 40,000 followers.
Randi Zuckerberg, Mark's sister, was not pleased and tweeted at marketing director Calli Shweitzer that the photo was only meant for her friends and was private and she said it was "way uncool," reported The Associated Press.
The photo is of four people in a kitchen staring at phones with their mouths open and Mark Zuckerberg is in the background. Randi said that Schweitzer was able to take the photo because they have a mutual friend on Facebook.
"Digital etiquette: always ask permission before posting a friend's photo publicly. It's not about privacy settings, it's about human decency," Randi Zuckerberg wrote on her Twitter after the incident.
Her comment and the incident itself has sparked a debate about privacy issues. "The thing that bugged me about Randi Zuckerberg's response is that she used her name as a bludgeoning device. Not everyone has that. She used her position to get it taken it down," said Eva Galperin of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy advocacy group in San Francisco to the Associated Press.
Galperin commented on how even Randi Zuckerberg, who used to be the marketing director of Facbeook can get the privacy settings wrong, "Even Randi Zuckerberg can get it wrong," she said, "That's an illustration of how confusing they can be."
Facebook is going to change their privacy settings to make it easier for people to be able to use and understand them. This will occur during the next few weeks in Jan 2013. Changes include a new "privacy shortcut" section where a lock will appear at the top right corner of the newsfeed with a drop down box that says, "Who can see my stuff?," reports the AP.
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