{"id":5405,"date":"2010-05-17T00:00:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-16T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:53:01","slug":"growing-outcry-over-facebook-privacy-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2010\/05\/growing-outcry-over-facebook-privacy-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Outcry over Facebook Privacy Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An online backlash against the social website Facebook is gathering strength &#8211; and the company&#8217;s executives have held an emergency meeting to discuss growing concerns about the privacy of its users.<\/p>\n<p>According to Google search results, there&#8217;s been a spike in the number of Facebook users looking to delete their accounts.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the site&#8217;s 400 million users charge that it is trying to exploit users by controlling access to their private information.<\/p>\n<p>But despite the backlash, Ben Parr, the co-editor of the social networking blog Mashable.com, says the social website continues to grow.<\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qR8-rCQUeF4&amp;feature=player_embedded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An online backlash against the social website Facebook is gathering strength &#8211; and the company&#8217;s executives have held an emergency meeting to discuss growing concerns about the privacy of its users. According to Google search results, there&#8217;s been a spike in the number of Facebook users looking to delete their accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whistleblowing-surveillance","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}