The privacy issues around Facebook are so widely covered that I’d rather not beat that dead horse here. However, there are many lessons around the Facebook debacle for the rank-and-file cloud computing providers, whose numbers are growing weekly.
The core issue is that Facebook has been focused on the data it is gathering and not the users it is serving. Facebook seems to view users as content providers and does not consider their core needs
I suspect that some cloud computing provider will bite the security dust at some point and spin the resulting outage as a “blip” in service — in the same misguided way Facebook doesn’t admit that privacy matters to its users. Of course, it’s not a “blip” if you’re an enterprise depending on a cloud provider, losing a million dollars an hour during the outage.