I posted in mid-July about the Canadian privacy commissioner’s concerns over privacy and FaceBook — that among other things, FaceBook was keeping dead users’ accounts activated indefinitely, providing private information to application developers and providing no clear difference between deactivating and deleting an account.

Well it would appear as if FaceBook is taking this seriously, as the company has already made some changes to its privacy policy, and it says more are in the works. This is a good thing — not only for FaceBook’s many users, but also for FaceBook itself.

How responsive companies are to this type of issue often has far greater consequences than the actual alleged transgression — and FaceBook’s desire to put this to bed early is both prudent and wise. FaceBook has a real opportunity to come out as the hero, since the company can both further protect its users’ privacy as well as meet Canadian legal standards for that very same privacy. I guess we’ll see how this ultimately plays out.