My good friend Stateside, Russell E Whitaker, is, like an increasing number of Facebook users, getting annoyed at how any privacy settings that might seem to be available on the service are not being respected and have in fact been eroded, according to this report. Now, I have always taken the view that the internet is not a fully robust thing from a privacy point of view, but then again, if a business claims to respect privacy, but it turns out there is a problem, then users are entitled to feel angry.

I have a FB page, but I never put sensitive personal stuff on there and I tend to prune so-called "friends" pretty ruthlessly if I find that anyone is taking liberties with me. But I take the risk, at least for the moment.

But the beauty of this technology and indeed of capitalism is that complaints about an issue - such as privacy - are already spawning new ventures and ideas. I am not sure how this venture will work out (based in NY) but I wish it the best of luck.