EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy

An anonymous reader writes "The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) today filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, asking the agency to investigate the recent changes made by Facebook to the privacy settings of Facebook users. The complaint discusses the sharing of user information with third-party developers and the new, widely-opposed 'Everyone' setting, which allows certain user information, such as name, profile picture, and friends lists, to be publicly available. EPIC also urges the FTC to compel Facebook to restore privacy safeguards. The complaint was signed by nine privacy and consumer organizations."

Comments

Re:Friends list

[daveime]

So why exactly did you sign up in the first place ? Having an AC account on Facebook seems kind of pointless ... and by that I mean even more pointless than the whole premise of knowing when your cousin last took a dump (some people post their entire daily routine online), or when your auntie last fed her virtual fish or cooking in her virtual cafe.

Re:Oh teh Noes!

[mcgrew]

Considering that facebook collects more information about the population than a government agency I think it is completely reasonable to put restrictions on what they do with that data

I agree 100%. It should be illegal for a company to sell your data in any case.