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How Facebook's ambiguous privacy settings can leak your sexual orientation

How Facebook's ambiguous privacy settings can leak your sexual orientation

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Privacy settings on Facebook have long been a contentious issue, from their availability and implementation to how Facebook users utilize them. The Wall Street Journal explores the complications for homosexual users who were outed to their families after being added to a Facebook group without their consent. The ability to add friends to groups without their permission is a known privacy problem on Facebook — one that the social network has not closed, despite adding more privacy settings information to the group creation page. To read more about the struggles of users who thought they were safe using Facebook's privacy settings, check out the full article by clicking the first search result in the source link below.