There is a certain delicious irony when we read the story of how Facebook founder and chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg now wants to protect his privacy. Zuckerberg, who is now embroiled in a court case with a New Yorker Paul Ceglia who claims he owns most of the social networking site, says the other party is trying to get legal discovery into details about Zuckerberg's private life.
Irony of ironies. This is the man who has made a fortune collecting information about his web site's users. Facebook keeps launching features that keep raising privacy concerns from civil liberties groups.
And Zuckerberg himself has said that the age of privacy is over. Speaking at a public function earlier this year, he said: "People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people. That social norm is just something that has evolved over time. We view it as our role in the system to constantly be innovating and be updating what our system is to reflect what the current social norms are."
But then, he would say his privacy is sacrosanct.
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