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Gays and lesbians in the closet, surprised sometimes when Facebook releases the tendency friends indirectly
Combination group revealed the secret
Gays and lesbians are still in the closet, find it sometimes unintentionally, Hudot' Facebook. In an article published by the Wall Street Journal story about some cases where incidents gay Facebook outed against their will. In the case of Bobby Duncan, 22, Austin, Texas. She did not want her father found out she was a lesbian, but when in charge of a gay choir is a Facebook group added it opened for the choir - not knowing that the information disclosed two hundred members - it was not hard to do the 1 +1 and understand what her sexual orientation.
As a result of Duncan's father called her and left angry messages on her answering machine, which demanded that deny public relations facebook single - sex and threatened to cut off ties with her family. Duncan cried all that night and she said she felt as if someone had hit her stomach with a bat. Its member choir has a similar case, where his father also revealed his sexual orientation through this, rage and severed contact with him for several weeks.

Anyone can add a member to a group

Privacy control system robust? Facebook (screenshot)
The problem is that anyone can add a friend to the group it opens facebook, when a friend has the possibility to get out of it only after the fact. Until then receive his Facebook post he belongs to this group - even if it is attached to and joined himself. When a group of gays - clear what we can conclude about the person. Although the team manager could set the group as confidential - such companies in confidential discussions and those not part of it, but the director of the choir group which participated Duncan chose the option of group open - where companies and public content and available to all. This choice allowed him to bypass the privacy settings specificity of friends like Duncan, who defined her hide Facebook updates from her father. "I never thought about it, and I take some responsibility," admitted the manager after the fact.
Gays are exposed not only against their facebook. In 2009, a Canadian named Nathalie Blanchard lost her disability insurance benefits due to them has depression, after it raised up pictures that looked celebrates several places. The insurance company hired a private detective and asked a doctor to re-evaluate her mental state, in light of the findings. Blanchard did not know the picture that came up exposed to all, not just Facebook members. Privacy settings of the social network, which are often complicated for ordinary users, causing many not be sure what their content is open and what is closed only from friends - which creates' surprises of this kind.
"Our hearts are with them and their young incident reminded us that we must continue our work to empower and educate users about privacy control system of our firm," Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes about the incident Hmkaln group. The American Civil Liberties Organization (ACLU), in turn, claims that Facebook has a slow process of finding out more information about its users to the public and its business partners. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal said the organization's lawyer Grace Connelly users are often not aware of the extent to which information about them is available. "If a famous sensitive information - often difficult to return the cat bag," he said.