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[Bits] Privacy Group Files Complaint on Facebook Changes - Bits Blog ...: We’re pleased that so many users have already gone through the process of reviewing and updating their privacy settings and are impressed that so many have chosen to customize their settings, demonstrating the effectiveness of Facebook’s user empowerment and transparency efforts. Of course, 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.

[Sequence Inc. Fraud Files Blog] Complaint filed with FTC about Facebook “privacy” changes ...: option in the Friends box on your profile, your Friend List won’t appear on your profile regardless of whether people are viewing it while logged into Facebook or logged out. This information is still publicly available, however, and can be accessed by applications.

[Technology Liberation Front] Facebook Privacy Controls Change & EPIC's FTC Complaint ...: We're totally in agreement that if Facebook engaged in fraud or deceptive practices, it deserves to be punished. Perhaps it would be reasonable to require Facebook to revert to its prior privacy policy, or to compensate users whose friends'

[MediaFile] Facebook privacy backlash in FTC's hands | Analysis & Opinion ...: Facebook’s privacy changes “violate user expectations, diminish user privacy and contradict Facebook’s own representations,” reads the 29-page complaint, which accuses the world’s No.1 Internet social networking company of engaging in unfair and deceptive practices.

[Social Hacking] Months Later, Old Facebook Privacy Problems Remain | Social Hacking: The SocialReach iframe doesn’t actually display any ads, but it does load code with a session secret that makes broad API requests to Facebook. Fortunately, these requests currently fail, likely due to a mishandling of the session secret, but once again, a few code changes by SocialReach would start the data flowing again.

[E-Commerce Times] E-Commerce News: Privacy: Privacy Groups Take Facebook Quarrel to ...: Many privacy advocates would say that all data should be opt-in, "but that doesn't strike a balance with the fact that there are benefits to sharing," Szoka told the E-Commerce Times. "Unlike EPIC, I don't think sharing is a bad thing -- the trick is to do it in a way that empowers users with granular control over the things they really find sensitive."

[PogoWasRight.org] Privacy Groups Bring Facebook Complaints to FTC | PogoWasRight.org: Facebook unveiled the new privacy settings last week, saying that they were giving users more granular control over their settings, but critics immediately jumped on the fact that Facebook’s new default settings push information that may previously have been semi-private onto the Internet and they now give users no way to block their friends’ Facebook applications from accessing personal data.

[p2pnet news] p2pnet news » Blog Archive » EPIC goes after Facebook: “Starting with the very first version of Facebook five years ago, we’ve built tools that help you control what you share with which individuals and groups of people. Our work to improve privacy continues today.”

[CEOWORLD Magazine] A review on How Facebook Privacy Hit With FTC Complaint ...: These changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook’s own representations. These business practices are Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices, subject to review by the Federal Trade Commission (the “Commission”) under section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act.

[The Jason Calacanis Weblog] Facebook Follow-up: FTC complaints, lawsuits & horrific charts-oh ...: Luckily, as an industry, we have pundits, tweeters and lawsuits to throw a little cold water on the heads of the super-smart folks at Facebook who have .happen, but the wording on the message was awfully deceptive.” c) “There will be a class suite.” d) “I don't think that their latest shenanigans will change much, but it does not help the overall atmosphere.

[EFF.org Updates] The World Reacts to The New Facebook | Electronic Frontier Foundation: Several of those comments were collected by the San Francisco Chronicle in a story titled "Facebook users speak out against new privacy settings". In the complaint, EPIC alleges that Facebook's latest privacy changes are deceptive and unfair and asks that the FTC open an investigation and order Facebook to restore to its users the control over their privacy that has been lost in the .

[The Not-So Private Parts] Did Facebook break the law when it changed privacy settings ...: The proposed Gateway settlement affects any company that materially changes its privacy policies in ways that contradict promises made to consumers at the time their information was collected. For example, if the old policy told consumers that the company would not share personal information with third parties, the company cannot do so under the new policy unless the company obtains from consumers opt-in consent for the continuing use of information collected under the old policy.

[WalletPop Blog] Facebook to streamline privacy for users: The advertisements that started these rumors were not from Facebook but placed within applications by third parties. Those ads violated our policies by misusing profile photos, and we already required the removal of those deceptive ads from third-party applications before this rumor began spreading.

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