Update: I deactivated my facebook account, following the fracas over the facebook friends page.  I´m still on Twitter. I will also – probably in a few months – change the format of this blog to make some part of it private,  partly to avoid plagiarism and partly for security.

According to this report, privacy advocates are outraged by Facebook´s new settings (that went into effect on Wednesday):

“The Facebook privacy transition tool is clearly designed to push users to share much more of their Facebook info with everyone, a worrisome development that will likely cause a major shift in privacy level for most of Facebook’s users, whether intentionally or inadvertently.”

Prior to the change, Facebook users could keep everything but their names and networks private.

Maybe that throws light on this.

On inquiring, Deep Capture says the inclusion of some of the names initially was an accident and has removed them. It also point out here that the characterization of the list as hacked is libelous…

Other users might want to double-check their settings.