Only one in three Facebook users adjusted their privacy options after the social networking site changed its standard privacy settings.

"Put another way, the Carry on Regardless attitude of 65 per cent of Facebook's 350 million users means that they are sharing any photos and posts they upload onto the social networking website with world or dog without anything like informed consent," writes The Register's John Leyden.

"Following the application of Facebook's changes, users were confronted with a notice from the social networking site urging them to review privacy settings the next time they logged on," Leyden writes. "This notice did not explain that Facebook had lowered privacy shields, a move that had privacy and security experts frothing at the mouth."

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