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aimed at countries where broadband is limited.

Facebook Lite appears to be a cut-down version of Facebook and is aimed at countries where broadband is limited.

"Facebook Lite is a fast-loading, simplified version of Facebook that enables people to make comments, accept friend requests, write on people's walls, and look at photos and status updates," the statement continued.

a Facebook account that was opened without the knowledge or consent of his parents."

the minor's medical information may have been stored

Facebook makes reasonable efforts to remove accounts of children where there is evidence they are under 13,

the issues Facebook had created in their romantic relationships,"

a good-looking stranger

You don't know your partner's history with this person or the nature of their relationship,

The blogger, who uses the account name "Cyxymu," (the name of a town in the Republic of Georgia) had accounts on all of the different sites that were attacked at the same time, Max Kelly, chief security officer at Facebook, told CNET New

A Georgian blogger with accounts on Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and Google's Blogger and YouTube was targeted in a denial-of-service attack that led to the sitewide outage at Twitter and problems at the other sites on Thursday, according to a Facebook executive.

Kelly declined to speculate on who was behind the attack, but he said: "You have to ask who would benefit the most from doing this and think about what those people are doing and the disregard for the rest of the users and the Internet."

violating California privacy and online privacy laws by disseminating private information to third parties for commercial purposes.

alleges the social-networking site

The five plaintiffs are described as two children younger than 13,

Facebook must also deal with persistent privacy concerns. When the company first rolled out the News Feed, and any change on a user's page suddenly began scrolling on the screens of anyone who'd added him or her as a friend, the social graph went bonkers: more than 700,000 people joined a user group called "Students Against Facebook News Feed." The company acted quickly to install privacy controls to let people opt out of the information flow, and the crisis cooled, though Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy Information Center says that setting privacy preferences is still too complicated. The company says that plenty of protections are built in. "Facebook is about replicating the social restrictions of the offline world," says its chief privacy officer, Chris Kelly. The problem is that Facebook is on the Internet, and it's all too easy to circumvent those and dig up private stuff. This is all too clear from the experience of political offspring who seem engaged in perpetual competition to embarrass their parents.

be more transparent about what data it collects and why.

privacy settings and make it clear to users that they can delete or deactivate an account

The country is the first to complete a full investigation of Facebook's privacy practices.