<p>The search engine Openbook scans all "public" updates left by members of the social networking site, making them available to anyone through internet.<br /><br />The software has been created to highlight Facebook's complex privacy settings, which have been blamed for confusing users into disclosing personal information more than they intend.<br /><br />Searching Openbook for potentially compromising terms like "sex", "boss" or "drunk" throws up thousands of updates from the past few hours, The Telegraph reported.<br /><br />The content searched by Openbook is already in the public domain, but the privacy campaigners hope that presenting details in a searchable format on a single site will make social network members think twice before sharing any information.<br /><br />Last month Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder, announced that the site's privacy settings would be simplified after growing complaints that users were being duped into sharing private information.<br /><br />He admitted that the site "missed the mark" on allowing its almost 500 million users to easily control how much of their data could be seen by the public.<br /><br />Openbook is the brainchild of Will Moffat, Peter Burns and James Home, three website developers from San Francisco.</p>
<p>The search engine Openbook scans all "public" updates left by members of the social networking site, making them available to anyone through internet.<br /><br />The software has been created to highlight Facebook's complex privacy settings, which have been blamed for confusing users into disclosing personal information more than they intend.<br /><br />Searching Openbook for potentially compromising terms like "sex", "boss" or "drunk" throws up thousands of updates from the past few hours, The Telegraph reported.<br /><br />The content searched by Openbook is already in the public domain, but the privacy campaigners hope that presenting details in a searchable format on a single site will make social network members think twice before sharing any information.<br /><br />Last month Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook co-founder, announced that the site's privacy settings would be simplified after growing complaints that users were being duped into sharing private information.<br /><br />He admitted that the site "missed the mark" on allowing its almost 500 million users to easily control how much of their data could be seen by the public.<br /><br />Openbook is the brainchild of Will Moffat, Peter Burns and James Home, three website developers from San Francisco.</p>