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Originally, Facebook did not want to comment on our story about Mark Zuckerberg's attitude toward privacy or the instant-message exchange we published earlier. 
  
 (In the IM exchange, which may just have been silly dorm-room chitchat, Mark called Harvard students who trusted him with their phone numbers and email addresses "dumb.") 
  
 The company has since given us a statement: 
  
 "The privacy and security of our users' information is of paramount importance to us. We're not going to debate claims from anonymous sources or dated allegations that attempt to characterize Mark's and Facebook's views towards privacy. 
  
 Everyone within the company understands our success is inextricably linked with people's trust in the company and the service we provide. We are grateful people continue to place their trust in us. We strive to earn that trust by trying to be open and direct about the evolution of the service and sharing information on how the 400 million people on the service can use the available settings to control where their information appears." 
  
 For the record, we believe every word of this statement. Persuading Facebook's hundreds of millions of users that the company is committed to protecting their privacy is critical to the company's future success. ||||| <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/prospere/2927938192/sizes/l/">Ludovic Toinel</a> Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his company are suddenly facing a big new round of scrutiny and criticism about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy. 
  
 An early instant messenger exchange Mark had with a college friend won't help put these concerns to rest. 
  
 According to SAI sources, the following exchange is between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and a friend shortly after Mark launched The Facebook in his dorm room: 
  
 Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard Zuck: Just ask.Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS [Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?Zuck: People just submitted it.Zuck: I don't know why.Zuck: They "trust me"Zuck: Dumb fucks. 
  
 Brutal. 
  
 Could Mark have been completely joking? Sure. But the exchange does reveal that Facebook's aggressive attitude toward privacy may have begun early on. 
  
 Since Facebook launched, the company has faced one privacy flap after another, usually following changes to the privacy policy or new product releases. To its credit, the company has often modified its products based on such feedback. As the pioneer in a huge new market, Facebook will take heat for everything it does. It has also now grown into a $22 billion company run by adults who know that their future depends on Facebook users trusting the site's privacy policy. 
  
 But the company's attitude toward privacy, as reflected in Mark's early emails and IMs, features like Beacon and Instant Personalization, and the frequent changes to the privacy policy, has been consistently aggressive: Do something first, then see how people react. 
  
 And this does appear to reflect Mark's own views of privacy, which seem to be that people shouldn't care about it as much as they do -- an attitude that very much reflects the attitude of his generation. 
  
 After all, here's what early Facebook engineering boss, Harvard alum, and Zuckerberg confidant Charlie Cheever said in David Kirkpatrick's brilliantly-reported upcoming book The Facebook Effect. 
  
 "I feel Mark doesn't believe in privacy that much, or at least believes in privacy as a stepping stone. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong." 
  
 Again in Kirkpatrick's book, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg puts it this way: 
  
 "Mark really does believe very much in transparency and the vision of an open society and open world, and so he wants to push people that way. I think he also understands that the way to get there is to give people granular control and comfort. He hopes you'll get more open, and he's kind of happy to help you get there. So for him, it's more of a means to an end. For me, I'm not as sure." 
  
 Facebook declined to comment about Mark's attitude toward privacy. 
  
 Update: Facebook Issues Statement On Latest Zuckerberg IM And Company Attitude Toward Privacy 
  
 See also: ||||| Facebook Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg and other executives planned to field questions from employees Thursday afternoon amid growing criticism of how the popular social networking site treats the personal information of its more than 400 million users. 
  
 Facebook downplayed the all-hands meeting, saying it would not be making any changes to new features announced three weeks ago that some say invade their privacy. 
  
 The meeting comes as lawmakers, privacy watchdogs and technology pundits take issue with new features that were automatically rolled out without users' explicit consent. 
  
 Last week, the Electronic Privacy Information Center and 14 other consumer groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission. This week, the European Union also took issue with the new features. Charts tracking the erosion of privacy on Facebook have been posted. Technology pundits and bloggers have offered their opinions; some have warned that Facebook may be risking damage to its brand. 
  
 Some prominent bloggers have “deactivated,” or deleted, their Facebook accounts. On Wednesday’s episode of “This Week in Google,” host Leo Laporte said he searched WikiHow to figure out how to delete his account. Searchengineland.com editor Danny Sullivan said that traffic to WikiHow had exploded and that Google searches for “how do I delete my facebook account” had soared. 
  
 "That's it. It's gone," Laporte said during the show. "And I think that's the right thing to do." 
  
 Facebook has argued that it is giving users more control over their privacy not less. And it’s looking to beef up its presence in Washington to defend its privacy practices to Congress and federal regulators. 
  
 Privacy issues have been a recurrent problem. A 2007 feature called Beacon, which published Facebook users' activity at other websites in their Facebook news feeds, triggered such a strong backlash that the company scrapped it. Last year the company faced another controversy when it changed privacy settings to make some information publicly available. 
  
 Yet Facebook remains the Web’s hottest property, challenging Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc. for consumers’ attention and advertising dollars. And that’s what has helped fuel this firestorm. The company has a massive treasure chest of user information that could be very valuable to advertisers. 
  
 Some see Facebook's new features as a stepping stone to pushing users to make more of that data readily available. 
  
 One feature is a “Like” button that publishers install on their websites to allow people to more easily share content with their Facebook friends. The “Like” feature is public, so others can see what users liked. 
  
 The more controversial feature is called instant personalization, a pilot program with three partner websites in which Facebook automatically sends information to the sites about the user so they can tailor content to the user’s interests. 
  
 Facebook is expected to unveil a new feature that users would use to reveal their location in status updates. 
  
 -- Jessica Guynn 
  
 Photo: Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg. Credit: Paul Sakuma / Associated Press |||||
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More ammo for Mark Zuckerberg's privacy critics: The Silicon Alley Insider has a transcript of IMs between a then-19-year-old Zuckerberg, shortly after he launched Facebook, and a college friend. Zuckerberg's comments, strung together: "Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard. Just ask. I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS." Asked how, he responds: "People just submitted it. I don't know why. They 'trust me.' Dumb fucks." Could be "silly dorm-room chitchat," writes Nicholas Carlson. "But the exchange does reveal that Facebook's aggressive attitude toward privacy may have begun early on." Facebook didn't deny the authenticity. "We're not going to debate claims from anonymous sources or dated allegations that attempt to characterize Mark's and Facebook's views toward privacy," said a statement, adding that the "privacy and security of our users' information is of paramount important to us." Meantime, Facebook execs are addressing employee concerns on the subject, notes the Los Angeles Times.