After a period of 3 years EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) has again filed a complain with FTC against the Facebook requesting to investigate the company’s business practices and directing it to take necessary steps to protect privacy of users.
This is the second body complaining to FTC after the four other individual complaints by senators Charles Schumer, Michael Bennet, Mark Begich and Al Franken.
EPIC requests following points to FTC’s attention in its complaint
- Compel Facebook to restore its previous privacy settings allowing users to choose whether to link and publicly disclose personal information, including name, current city, friends, employment information, educational information, and music, film, television, and literature preferences;
- Compel Facebook to restore its previous requirement that developers retain user information for no more than 24 hours;
- Compel Facebook to make its data collection practices clearer and more comprehensible and to give Facebook users meaningful control over personal information provided by Facebook to advertisers and developers;
In 2007 EPIC filed a complaint n response to Facebook Beacon, a program which was eventually shut down.
EPIC gains support of senators on opposition of “Instant personalization” program in ite opinion “social plugins violate user expectations and reveal user information without the user’s consent”.
It seems that trouble has just started for Facebook. Bigger things are always soft targets as it is difficult to miss them.
Source AllFacebook.com
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