Facebook's 'outrageous' privacy policy: By the numbers

Anxious that the site is selling their data, Facebook users are railing against its 5,830-word guidelines. A quick, statistical look at the brewing battle

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If Facebook's 400 million users could collectively post a status update, it might read "concerned." Fans are growing increasingly frustrated with the site's labyrinthine network of privacy settings, reports The New York Times — an impenetrable system that many feel lets the company get away with selling its users' private information to advertisers. "'How do i delete my facebook account' was among the top 20 trending searches on Google Hot Trends" this week, notes The Wall Street Journal, and even U.S. senators have voiced concerns. Here, a numbers run-down of Facebook's "outrageous" privacy policy:

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