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"While Mark Zuckerberg may have a plan for simplifying Facebook's privacy controls, apparently the social networking site has still not decided how it's going to implement location-based features.\nDuring a Q&amp;A session on Facebook's privacy controls today, CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked about what role privacy will play in Facebook's location-based features.  His response was twofold: First, he was not prepared to discuss the company's new location-based features because it has not finished building them yet and, secondly, he admitted that frankly the company doesn't know what exactly it's going to do with geolocation yet.\nZuckerberg's comments seem to contradict multiple reports that his company intends to launch its location-based features in the next month.  In fact, most reports claimed that location features would roll out later this month.  With only a few days left in May, that now seems highly unlikely.\nIn addition, other Facebook executives have already begun to talk about specific features of Facebook's location-based tools.  They will supposedly not compete with Foursquare, the hot location-based startup.\nSo what's going on with Facebook and location?  Is Zuckerberg misinformed, or are Facebook's location features not ready?  There are many possibilities, including:\n\nThe privacy backlash could have made Facebook rethink its location strategy, or at least delay the launch.\nPieces of the product may still be incomplete, and thus there's confusion over what the final product will do.\nZuckerberg may just not be ready to talk about what the company is going to launch.\n\nWe're going to dig deeper and see if we can learn more.  For now though, a giant question mark remains over Facebook and geolocation.\n\n\nFor more social media coverage, follow Mashable Social Media on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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