Privacy advocates think the changes go to far and don’t do enough to protect user’s privacy rights.

“These new ‘privacy’ changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a statement. “Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data.”

Other critics of the changes said it was designed primarily to make more information available to search engines like Google.

Facebook has received intense criticism in the past over privacy issues.

The Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court last Friday approved lawyer Mark McCormack’s application to use Facebook to serve the legally binding documents after several failed attempts to contact the couple at the house and by e-mail.
Australian courts have given permission in the past for people to be served via e-mail and text messages when it was not possible to serve them in person.

The lawyer claimed he’d been unsuccessful trying to contact the family offline.

Even though he was approved to send the documents via Facebook, he said the couple already wised up and removed their profile from the public eye.

Frankly this seems like a real bullshit way to serve legally binding documents.