EPIC Files FTC Complaint Over Facebook's New Privacy Policy

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 17, 2009 @09:40AM from the epic-complaint-totally dept.

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."

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Re:Decisions, decisions. by aztektum · 2009-12-17 10:35 · Score: 0, Troll

You can go in and set almost anything to what groups of people you want. All my photo albums are set to friends & networks. If I log out and goto my www.facebook.com/mynamehere address, my photo doesn't show up. Nothing shows up.
Sounds like people don't know how to actually use the new privacy settings.

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