Facebook has come under attack once again for its privacy issues, with the social networking site now looking to publish users' personal information on search engines.

Yesterday, Facebook users were greeted to a message from the site informing them of the privacy changes and offering an 'opt-out' option to return to their old privacy settings.

However, even old, complete privacy settings have now been voided by the site and and such information as profile picture, name and friends list can now no longer be made private.

A spokesman for internet rights campaign group the Electronic Frontier Foundation, said that 'these new privacy changes are clearly intended to push Facebook users to publicly share even more information than before'.

The group added: 'Even worse, the changes will actually reduce the amount of control that users have over some of their personal data.'

This comes after the announcement earlier this week that the social networking site has signed a deal with Google allowing the search tool to publish information from Facebook such as status updates in a real-time live search ticker.