Facebook has developed new privacy features and agreed to 20 years of independent audits of its privacy practices. Google and Twitter previously settled similar cases with the Federal Trade Commission. Farhad Manjoo argues that Facebook, or any social network, can never be truly private.
http://www.npr.org/2011/12/06/143215143/manjoo-making-facebook-private-is-oxymoronic
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) has apologized for referring to President Obama, while he was running for president, as "light-skinned" with "no Negro dialect." The comments prompted many Republicans to call on Reid to resign. But political analyst Keli Goff says that although she’s not ready to label Reid a racist, his poor choice of words reveal a great deal about his character.