Mark Zuckerberg Says Facebook's Privacy Policy A 'Third Rail Issue'... Do You Agree?

When Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg speaks, the world listens. And speak he does in a new 6,000-word New Yorker profile that delves right into the most contentious issue facing the social networking giant today: privacy. Already stirring the debate are Zuckerberg’s unapologetic response to the site’s privacy settings and his characterization of privacy as the Internet’s “third rail issue.”

A new set of privacy settings announced by Facebook in May have yet to quiet the site’s critics, but Zuckerberg remains unrepentant, telling writer Jose Antonio Vargas, “A lot of people who are worried about privacy and those kinds of issues will take any minor misstep that we make and turn it into as big a deal as possible.

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