It’s pretty clear that Facebook doesn’t care much about your privacy. They sneakily try to hide terms in their site agreement that force you to give up your privacy, allow advertisers to use your picture for advertisements (a default unless you turn that option off), and make changes to the site that compromise your security.

It is my firm believe that with a site as critical to modern culture as Facebook is, the company should display better morals, an understanding of basic privacy rights, and provide users with an abundance of options to control exactly what they share, when they share it, and with whom they share it. It’s true that Facebook has many more privacy controls than Twitter, MySpace, or other competing networks. Still, they fail to go the extra mile.

Now, a new scandal is coming out that involves the stuck up Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, and the unlawful hacking into emails of rivals and journalists. The respected Business Insider online magazine has ran a report alleging Zuckerberg’s involvement in the theft of intellectual data. It has been proposed that he stole the idea of Facebook from three former Harvard classmates, all who claim the idea to be developed by themselves jointly.

It appears that Mark used private data from Facebook’s servers to access their personal email accounts. Think about it- do you use one password for multiple accounts? Bingo! That’s how Mark’s thought process worked, and how it allowed him access to various Facebook users.

To make a long story short, Mark and the three men settled in court. The case would have gone longer, but the judge was a total prick and didn’t allow the contests of Mark’s hard drive to be searched. However, as both The Dailymail and The Business Insider point out, the plot thickens.

I’ll let you read it from the source itself, instead of recapping their content. Click here to read more as the plot thickens.

The last thing that I want to add is that your information is never, never secure on the Internet. In addition, be very weary of Facebook. It’s been well documented that Facebook is very liberal and has deleted many, many conservative users from Facebook. No matter what your political leanings are, deleting users who have worked hard to build their friends list up with associates and friends because their politics differ from Facebook’s agenda is dead wrong.

Your information is not safe on Facebook, and if you are someone who either covers the industry, has the attention of Mark, or believe that Mark will ever come across your name- for whatever reason- then ensure your Facebook password is unique, and assume that all of your messages, photographs, notes, and any other data on Facebook is completely open and unsecure.

Update- Video Interview with the Business Insider Senior Editor: