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Concerns over Facebook's new privacy policy and the online social network's recent efforts to spread its information across the Web have led some of the site's faithful to delete their accounts -- or at least try to.

Facebook's latest modifications make it pretty clear that the company is eager to spread its brand even further across the Web -- and that's left some privacy advocates a little freaked out as they look at the vast amount of personal information that Facebook has on hand.

This week, Facebook users suddenly found themselves able to monitor the private conversations their friends were having on the site's chat service. TechCrunch's Steve O'Hear reported the bug early this morning. When we attempted to recreate the experiment, we found Facebook's chat feature has been disabled entirely; Facebook explains that chat is "down for maintenance", presumably to fix the hole.