Senators Tell Facebook To Quit Sharing Users' Info

Hugh Pickens notes a USA Today story reporting that two US senators have joined Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in telling Facebook to quit sharing more of its users' data than they signed up for. Politico.com ups USA Today's ante, saying that it was three more senators, not two more, who joined Schumer's call: Michael Bennet (D-CO), Mark Begich (D-AK), and Al Franken (D-MN). The senators are asking the FTC to look at Facebook's controversial new information-sharing policies, arguing that the massively popular social network overstepped its bounds when it began sharing user data with other websites. Sen. Schumer said he learned about the new rules from his daughter, who is in law school, but added that he's noticed no difference on his own Facebook page, which, he assured reporters, "is very boring." "I can attest to that," deadpanned Franken, who made his living as a comedian before entering the Senate, and whose Facebook followers outnumber Schumer's by ten to one.

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Re:Facebook - A Matter of National Importance

[jameskojiro]

If immigration services had done their jobs in the summer of 2001 there woulnd't have been a 9/11 attack. Most of the 9/11 Hijackers were here on EXPIRED student visas. If the FBI had done their job they could have prevented it as well.

So what do we do?

We create several more layers of obsfication for the problem. We pass a patriot act that screw over the average american on civil rights, we create another bloated beuracracy in the form of Homeland Security.

What should have happened is that after the congressional investigation into 9/11 there should have been several rounds of mass firings in several key government agencies followed by promotions of those who sounded the alarms but were met with deaf ears of their (now fired) co-workers.

No one had the GUTS to even suggest that they should fire anyone after the 9/11 hearings. More of the government mentality of promoting those who fail instead of firing their asses.