Facebook and Privacy and the FTC — LA Times
Facebook Settles Privacy Suit with Federal Trade Commission
December 1, 2011 – Facebook’s privacy policies and tools have been a bit of a running joke and a regular topic of conversation among the privacy advocates that I know. The company has repeatedly changed its policies without notification to users and without seeking user permission. And those changes got the company in hot water with the FTC, which claimed that they violated the FTC Act by making false promises to consumers to keep their information private. This week, the FTC and Facebook settled their case. As a part of the settlement, Facebook is going to find the FTC looking over the company’s shoulder for the next 20 years.
Read article in the LA Times at:http://articles.latimes.com/2011/nov/29/business/la-fi-facebook-privacy-20111130
Tags: facebook, identity theft; identity fraud, privacy, social networking
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