Diaspora, an open-source Facebook competitor, made its first source codes available to general public on 15th September, 2010.

The controversies of users’ privacy in Facebook never seems to end. Facebook’s privacy issues started when it was not even founded. Mark Zuckerberg, a sophomore in Harvard, had to shut down an earlier site of its social networking site after breaking in into school’s directories and posting students’ photos without their consent. It was the beginning of the numerous difficulties Facebook would face in future. Since then, there were battles regarding privacy of its users: [...]