Partner Jeffrey Johnson, a member of Pryor Cashman’s Intellectual Property Group, was interviewed by TechNewsWorld for its October 7, 2010 article “Everything's Finally Copacetic on Facebook, Right?” 

The article by Erika Morphy notes that Facebook introduced a revamped Groups feature that lets users send messages to select people such as co-workers or families, as well as new tools that provide users with an audit on how apps are using their personal data, plus a way to download all of an individual's data to a browser-viewable file. As a result of this new feature, Facebook will gain even more insight into people's relationships. 

Johnson was asked about the pros and cons of these changes by Facebook. He told TechNewsWorld: “Anytime you are giving someone more information about who your friends are, what your relationships are, you are effectively giving an ISP or a social network more tools to evaluate and understand your behavior. Yes, there is the added benefit of being able to more readily communicate with smaller groups of closer friends and relatives, and to choose a smaller pool of people with whom you share particular information. So from the user's perspective, whether this is net loss or benefit will vary depending on how important their ability to selectively share information is.”

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