Time to actually FINE (yes, as in BIG MONEY) Facebook and this freak Sugarhill...
...I mean Zuckerberg; seriously.
Timeline is EXACTLY the thing the FTC was warning against, jmust about a month ago: using *my* information without *my* consent.
In essence even if you limited all your info to your Friends it will be still broadcasted to the whole world via your friends' Timeline if they do not limit everything the same way you do (Friends only).
Conversely the only way to prevent this insanity is to get ALL your friends to change their privacy settings to "Friends" only (or even more restricted if they have custom lists)...
...good luck with that.
Zuckerhill knows this very well, the whole Timeline was designed to be unavoidable; this is a truly cynical and arrogant kick into the face of every privacy rules, the FTC etc - a classic scumbag FB move, indeed.
Isn't it time to actually FINE FACEBOOK/Sugarberg and by that I mean REAL FINE, an amount that stings, painfully (eg a dollar per US user) so they will remember not to screw around anymore? I think so...