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"Alexander Hotz is a freelance multimedia journalist and public radio junkie based in New York City. Currently he teaches digital media at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Follow Alex on Twitter at @hotzington.\nThe release of Facebook Places raised serious privacy concerns for users of the social network. Places allows users to alert their friends to where they are by checking-in to a nearby location, often via mobile phone. Users can also view the location of nearby friends and the information they\u2019ve posted about locations.\nCritics of the feature point out that under Places\u2019 default setting, a user can tag a friend\u2019s location even if that friend is not physically in that location. What\u2019s more, all checkins will appear in the News Feed and activity stream for that place, unless otherwise specified. If this sounds like over-sharing to you and you\u2019d like to opt out, you can change your privacy settings.\nThis isn\u2019t the first time Facebook has received criticism for its privacy practices. In fact, Facebook\u2019s problems stretch back to before its founding when then Harvard sophomore Mark Zuckerberg hacked into the school\u2019s network to steal pictures of students for a site that ranked their attractiveness. Below is an infographic tracing the history of privacy snafus that have dogged the platform since its creation.\nThe graphic below was created for Mashable by Lisa Waananen.\n\n\n\n\n\nMore Facebook Resources from Mashable:\n- A Field Guide to Using Facebook Places- 5 Useful Facebook Trend and Search Services- Why Facebook and Apple Will Win the Q&amp;A War- Why the Social Gaming Biz is Just Heating Up- 15 of the Funniest Facebook Questions [PICS]"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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