Facebook opens up privacy debate

Social networking site Facebook has published proposed new terms of service and opened up the debate for the discussion of them with the site's users, just over a week after they had to ditch their previous update based on criticism that they were stealing users' content.

They will be open for comment and review for several weeks, after which they have promised that they will revise them based on user feedback.

Chief executive Mark Zuckerberg admitted that they had screwed up the previous attempt:

"A lot of the feedback was fair. We took last week as a strong signal of how much people cared about Facebook."

One privacy advocate called them move "a milestone in internet governance" - but a milestone you can guarantee they never would have achieved if their previous attempt had not been found out.

The site's also been in the news this week after a 16-year-old was sacked from her job at an Essex-based marketing & logistics company for describing her role as "boring" on the site.