&gt; &quot;But this aspect isn&#x27;t basically the issue of publishing? If you post your Facebook status&#x2F;photos and mark them publicly visible, you&#x27;re a publisher.&quot;<p>Sure, that&#x27;s part of it. However, the issue is that Facebook have tried to increase what constitutes public Facebook content over time.<p>Here are a couple of links about this:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mattmckeon.com&#x2F;facebook-privacy&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mattmckeon.com&#x2F;facebook-privacy&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;facebook-timeline" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.eff.org&#x2F;en-gb&#x2F;deeplinks&#x2F;2010&#x2F;04&#x2F;facebook-timelin...</a><p>You also have another group of privacy invasions enabled by the phone apps from Facebook:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en-gb.facebook.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;210676372433246" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en-gb.facebook.com&#x2F;help&#x2F;210676372433246</a><p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;facebook-photo-scanning&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fortune.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;09&#x2F;facebook-photo-scanning&#x2F;</a><p>I&#x27;m sure I could find other privacy issues with Facebook. Can you opt-out of all of this? Probably, but it certainly requires vigilance by its users, especially when new features are rolled out.