From the "You couldn’t make it up" department

Following hot on the heals of Tony Blair’s appointment as peace envoy to the Middle East (Satirists are already bitching about unfair competition) comes the news that Facebook’s privacy person doesn’t take outside calls.

Wired reports that ‘private’ FaceBook profiles, which can include information about religion, sexual orientation or relationship status, can be still be searched.

For instance, if you are a Facebook member of your college, you could run a search to see all the people who are Christian women who are lesbians, all the women interested in women or all the Muslim men into other men. Your search results will likely include people who thought they marked their information as private, but didn’t also change their search settings. (These links all require a valid Facebook account.)

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