PC World reports that New Yorker Barry Hoggard draws a line in the sand when it comes to online privacy. In May he said farewell to 1251 Facebook friends by deleting his account of four years to protest what he calls the social network’s eroding privacy policies. “I’m sick of keeping track of my Facebook privacy settings and what boxes I have to check to protect myself,” says Hoggard, a computer programmer. “I don’t have a lot of illusions about online privacy, but Facebook has gone too far,” he says of Facebook’s recent privacy policy changes…
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