There has been a lot of discussion about privacy in the news this past week, and surprisingly, not a whole lot of it has had to do with Facebook. Is the Facebook privacy concern fading? Feel free to discuss your concerns with that in the comments . To be fair, there is at least one current story that is related to Facebook privacy, and that is the upcoming release of Diaspora . This has been billed as an open alternative to Facebook, that would protect the privacy of users.