12 November 2011

Forced FTC Facebook Users Change Privacy Policy

Facebook finally resolve problems with federal regulators, policy regarding privacy of its users two years ago.

As reported by the Wall Street Journal, a legal settlement with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), will provide answers from privacy advocates charge that Facebook was involved in a dangerous action.

As quoted Ib Times, Sunday (11/13/2011), the current settlement is awaiting final approval by the commissioner that forced Facebook to get the consent of the user to change the materials 'retroactive'.

The decision was also made ​​up of independent auditors should be audited for 20 years.

Completion, will follow a similar agreement between the FTC by Google in March, and Twitter in 2010. Twitter FTC complaint has failed to keep the personal information of users.

Facebook as number 1 social network in the world with more than 800 million users, has often been criticized on the user's privacy policy.

The FTC complaint against Facebook conveyed by privacy advocacy organization, after the social network to introduce new privacy settings in 2009.

These changes require some information such as, gender and place of residence must be shown. Previously Facebook users can limit people to view their information.

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