Our lives used to be private by default, yet with the advent of each new social network, privacy has become increasingly difficult to preserve.

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Mr. Moffat said he built the site to pressure Facebook to switch its account settings so that such updates are private by default and wouldn't be accessible to developers like himself.

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All algorithms are private by default.

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