Walah....Pendiri Facebook Dikerjain di Groups NAMBLA

TRIBUNNEWS.COM - Fitur baru Facebook yaitu Groups yang baru saja diuji coba memakan korban. Tak tanggung-tanggung, yang jadi korban malah si pendiri sekaligus CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Demikian diberitakan AP, Jumat (8/10/2010).

Blogger ternama Michael Arrington, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, dan pendiri Mahalo Jason Calacanis menemukan diri mereka dimasukkan ke sebuah Groups bernama NAMBLA tanpa mereka sadari. Tidak jelas siapa yang membuat Groups ini namun ini merupakan akronim dari North American Man/Boy Love Association.

Akhirnya, Calanis kemudian berkirim surat ke Zuckerberg mengenai hal itu dan menjelaskan jika dirinya ditambahkan ke sebuah grup tanpa izin dan tak ada pilihan untuk menolak. Saat mengetahui dirinya ditambahkan ke grup itu, Zuckerberg hanya menulis komentar di group itu dengan mengatakan Groups itu bisa dengan mudah ditinggalkan dengan meng-klik tulisan unsubscribe.

Berikut isi email Calanis ke Zuckerberg

This company is trusted with 500 people’s data (and growing)?

Really?

Wow.

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: Jason Calacanis
Date: Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 2:58 AM
Subject: You might want to fix this.
To: zuck@facebook.com, Sheryl Sandberg

Team Facebook,

Seems as if anyone can add anyone to a Facebook Group.

There is no “opt in.”

In this case someone added Mike Arrington and I to the “NABLA” group
on Facebook. I know I’m not a member of NAMBLA, and I’m going to guess
that Mike isn’t either.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_162298770463078&ap=1

I’ve now been assigned to a group that advocates… well…. ummm….
you can look it up–it’s very bad.

Also troubling:

1. I was never asked to join the NABLA group
2. I was never informed that I was “force-joined” to the NABLA group.

If you guys want to run these new features by me before you launch
them, I can probably save you from a couple of privacy law suits each
year.

best regards,

Jason

ps – Nice job on the .ZIP export.
———————
Jason McCabe Calacanis
CEO, Mahalo

My thoughts and ideas: www.jasonnation.com

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