Facebook: the New Eagle Eye Removes Privacy Setting, So Anyone Can Find Your Profile

Very soon, any Facebook user you haven't blocked will be able to search for your name and find your Facebook profile. It's Google for people and you're just a result. Only no one would know that this is a big change by the way Facebook describes it in its blog post. Ho-hum, just "finishing the removal of an old search setting," says chief privacy officer Michael Richter.
Here's how it used to work: under the setting "Who can look up your Timeline by name?" users could control whether they could be found by selecting Everyone, Friends, or Friends of Friends. But last year, Facebook removed the setting for "for people who weren't using it," because "only a single-digit percentage of the nearly 1.2 billion people on its network" used the setting.
Facebook argues people weren't using it because that privacy setting didn't matter to them. But it's clear from their own description that part of the reason people didn't exercise the privacy option is because it was so hard to understand. Just look at the language. Who can look up your Timeline by name doesn't make it clear what you're safeguarding or what users can see.