A catalog was uploaded to torrent web site with the personal information of each searchable Facebook user's profile. The 2.8 GB folder encloses information on more than 170 million users. The Facebook database revelation is presently the newest of numerous privacy issues, from apps that disclose more than you appreciate to mystifying privacy settings. And users aren't agreeing on their responses, although most suggest this latest issue is a sign of things to come.

Facebook was rapid to react that the information was easily available via Facebook and web search engines and the posting was no hazard to user safety "users who use Facebook own their information and have the right to share simply what they desire, with whom they desire and when they feel like. Our liability is to esteem their needs. ... No confidential information is obtainable or has been negotiation. Alike to the white pages of the telephone book, this is the information obtainable to enable users to discover every other, which is the reason users link Facebook."