In his column for The Globe and Mail, Ivor Tossell writes that while major changes to the world's largest social network "make big headlines...it's the small changes we really need to worry about." Facebook recently rolled out "a tiny change, so small as to seem completely unworthy of note" that makes it more difficult for users to untag themselves from photos, he writes, suggesting, "The tiniest details of design have a huge effect on the way people use technology." Making the process more cumbersome has "tilted the playing field" away from privacy, he writes, and "from all the photos, events, tags and comments, Facebook can piece together a remarkable picture of what you've done where, when and with whom."
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