Washington
- A coalition of consumer and privacy advocates has filed a complaint with the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Facebook’s recent changes to its privacy
settings, arguing that consumers are now by default sharing more information
publicly than they were before the switch. The Electronic Privacy Information
Center (EPIC), along with the Center for Digital Democracy, American Library
Association and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, were party to the complaint,
which argues that the "changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy,
and contradict Facebook’s own representations."
The changes made to Facebook now automatically make public a user’s friends list, and pages of which they have become a ‘fan’.
"We’ve had productive discussions with dozens of organizations around the world about the recent changes and we ¹re disappointed that EPIC has chosen to share their concerns with the FTC while refusing to talk to us about them," Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes told Wired.com.
"The new tools offer users the opportunity to decide on privacy with every photo, link or status update they wish to post, so the process of personalizing privacy on Facebook will continue."
The privacy groups are petitioning the FTC to compel Facebook to restore its previous privacy settings, provide greater control to users, and seek injunctive and compensatory relief from the company.
http://epic.org/2009/12/epic-defends-privacy-of-facebo.html
http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/12/facebook-ftc-complaint
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10417934-36.html
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Complaints don’t solve problems. It is far too easy for us to offer our negative opinions. … In this case, there weren’t even changes to be made with the system.
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The privacy groups are petitioning the FTC to compel Facebook to restore its previous privacy settings,
Wish they would send an notification when facebook does it’s privacy policy updates.
This is nothing to do about facebook IMHO. Its the users opinion if they share it or they don’t. Really, if someone does not even care how much information he/she shares, then who should?
It seems to me these changes are putting privacy controls more in the hands of users than ever before. My opinion is that the default settings are not of any concern – it’s the user’s responsibility (and right) to set those preferences as they choose.
Facebook allows for very specific privacy settings and allows anyone to preview their own page through the eyes of any person on their friends list. They can specify, name by name, exactly what they will allow to be made public.
This is social networking, not a social security or credit database. If I’m worried about the whole world dropping everything in their busy lives just to come and spy on my itty-bitty little profile, I have to ask myself….
What makes ME so bloody important that others have nothing better to do but perv my profile????
I’ve left most of my privacy settings public because I’m just not that special.
thanks Mark good article
fb that was a really nice reply… They could use their own email .. thats a good thing
There is an option to hide friends lists now, but all default profile pictures are now visible, and anyone can add you as a friend; whereas, prior to the privacy changes, profile pictures could be private, and there was an option to not be able to be friended.
by by google …facebook is the winner now!!