Posted by Helen Moore So Facebook’s recent changes to privacy settings are attracting lots of attention. Unfortunately it’s of the wrong kind.
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) along with nine other groups has filed a complaint alleging that Facebook’s new privacy settings constitute an unfair and deceptive change in terms. The groups say that Facebook’s decision to institute the new controls violates users’ expectations and diminishes their privacy. The new settings classify a host of data as “publicly available information” — including users’ names, profile pictures, cities, networks, lists of friends and pages that people are fans of.
This complaint has led to the Federal Trade Commission taking an interest. And to add insult to injury, ex-employees are coming out of the woodwork to say exactly what Facebook actually monitors – and it’s rather more than you might think.
Now wouldn’t you have thought, that an organization such as Facebook would have looked into the implications of change more carefully?
You can read all about it here.
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