- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:01:13 -0500
- To: "public-privacy (W3C mailing list)" <public-privacy@w3.org>
Full article online http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/30/technology/facebook-agrees-to-ftc-settlement-on-privacy.html?_r=1&seid=auto&smid=tw-nytimes&pagewanted=print
Excerpt:
The strongly worded order, announced by the Federal
Trade Commission in Washington, stems in large part
from changes that Facebook made to its users’
privacy protocols in December 2009. The commission
alleged that Facebook made public information that
users had designated as private, without warning
them or obtaining their consent.
Facebook also allowed advertisers to have access to
personally identifiable information each time a
Facebook user clicked on an ad on the Facebook site.
And it allowed third-party applications to have
access to data that users had intended for their
listed friends to see.
All told, the commission listed eight allegations.
It levied no fines, but said the company would be
liable to pay $16,000 a day for each violation of
the settlement in the future.
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
Received on Tuesday, 29 November 2011 22:01:52 UTC