Posted on 11/30/2011 5:36:29 AM PST by WOBBLY BOB
SAN FRANCISCO - Government regulators are sharing some alarming information about Facebook: They believe the online social network has often misled its more than 800 million users about the sanctity of their personal information.
The unflattering portrait of Facebook's privacy practices emerged Tuesday in a Federal Trade Commission complaint alleging that Facebook exposed details about users' lives without getting legally required consent. In some cases, the FTC charged, Facebook allowed potentially sensitive details to be passed along to advertisers and software developers prowling for customers.
To avoid further legal wrangling, Facebook agreed to submit to government audits of its privacy practices every other year for the next two decades. The company committed to getting explicit approval from its users - a process known as "opting in" - before changing their privacy controls.
The FTC's truce with Facebook, along with previous settlements with Google and Twitter, is helping to establish more ground rules for online privacy expectations even as Internet companies regularly vacuum up insights about their audiences in an effort to sell more advertising.
Although Facebook didn't acknowledge any wrongdoing in the legal papers it signed with the FTC, Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was more contrite in a blog post Tuesday.
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Did you ever try to get “out” of Facebook? If you try to, you’ll see there’s a real problem that makes the whole thing suspect. I’ve deleted everything thing I have on Facebook having only “signed up to see it” about three years ago. I’m still getting “friends are asking for you” notifications. And no matter what I do I cannot get rid of this. Facebook, for me is like a cyber cancer that won’t go away. I don’t care if people want to use it and like it...that’s THEIR choice. My choice is to have nothing to do with it and that choice is blocked. So for me, any “entity” that wants to do battle with them is an ally.
Personally, I have ZERO problem with Facebook and Privacy.
I want every damn lefty to see every one of my posts that reflect my loathing of the left along with their backward ass principles.
I am their enemy,I want them to know it,and I hope that flaming lefty Zuckerman reads them himself!!!
Facebook is like the Hotel California, you can sign in, but you can never leave.
Facebook is evil.
Ping!
I think “Facebook privacy” is an oxymoron.
As always; follow the money.
www.Facebook.com come is changing it’s name to...
...www.TwoFacebook.com.
Buy a new computer and never sign up for FB. I don’t have FB and plan to stay as far away from them as possible.
I was getting “frieds are looking for you” notices when I hadn’t gone near Facebook. The only thing I can think of is they got into my computer and stole my address book.
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