Facebook a spy?

Not Mr. Sawyers

Regular readers know that the Clarion Content's editors love to tweak Facebook for its privacy threatening forays. We know, and hope that you do too, that the company is not entirely to blame. Users are complicit. We refer you to the fascinating Esquire essay by Tom Junod about the consumer's complicity forged by agreeing to terms of service.

Here is the latest bemusing Facebook story. John Sawers, currently Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, is about to become the head of Great Britain's legendary MI6, the British Secret Intelligence Service. His wife Lady Shelley Sawers had a Facebook page. On this Facebook page she posted family photos, information about the couple's children, their apartment and their high profile-friendships. There was nothing more scandalous than the fact that the man wears Speedo's when he swims. There was some concern that revealing the location that they vacation and where they lived posed limited security risks. The AFP reports that the page has since been taken down according to the British Foreign Office.