After Canadian Prodding, Facebook To Change Privacy Policy

Retardical_Sam writes "Facebook has agreed to make changes to protect users' personal information on the social networking site, including the way data is accessed by third-party developers, Canada's privacy commissioner said Thursday. Canadian officials have been negotiating with Facebook since the Office of the Privacy Commissioner released a report a month ago that argued the social network breaches Canadian privacy law. Facebook agreed to make changes dealing with third-party applications like quizzes and games, deactivation of accounts, the personal identification of non-users and accounts of users who die."

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Good to see privacy advocates busy...

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Too bad, they don't seem to find any time for the major invasion of privacy by the government, that may well become law, if efforts to derail "Obamacare" fail...

One can simply not sign-up with Facebook, but "opting out" of national-socialist health care will be impossible... And yet, the ACLU and EFF are silent — are they, perhaps, being partisan and rooting for the proposal to succeed, privacy be damned? Well, ACLU are busy helping America's enemies identify Americans, who fought them. But EFF? The threat I'm talking about — sharing of income and medical data electronically between State and Federal government agencies — is right up their valley...