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US Senators are concerned about Facebook privacy
FOUR UNITED STATES SENATORS have written to Facebook wunderling Mark Zuckerberg and urged him to make it easier for users to protect their privacy.
Associated Press has seen a copy of the letter, reports that it is signed by Senators Charles Schumer of New York, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Mark Begich of Alaska, and Al Franken of Minnesota, and says it is on its way to Zuckerberg. Since these are US Senators, we don't expect they favoured the email approach to old fashioned post, though.
In the letter the Senators ask for improved privacy controls, most notably that plans to add the 'Like' button to the general Internet should be reined in and used less as a marketing aid. According to the AP, the letter observes that this expansion "raises new concerns for users who want to maintain control over their information."
Facebook currently requests that its users opt-out of some of its more controversial options, and shares a range of personal information with partner sites automatically by default. This should be reversed, the Senators said, so that people have to choose to opt-in instead.
Facebook has quickly responded to the AP report, and in a statement said, "We've developed powerful tools to give our users control over what information they want to share, when they want to share it and with whom."
Obviously, Facebook still doesn't 'get it' yet about its responsibility to protect its users' rights to privacy, and it is going to take either lawsuits or legislation, or both, before it will. µ
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all I said is the fat, bribe taking (yes they recently legalized acepting money from forgien companies) Senators should get their arse to work on real issues and not worry about people volunteering their persoal info. I mean wtf I've never been censored here before. or did the CIA take over your site and start blocking truths?
"Facebook currently requests that its users opt-out of some of its more controversial options, and shares a range of personal information with partner sites automatically by default. This should be reversed, the Senators said, so that people have to choose to opt-in instead."
HEY SENATORS why don't require the same for corporations and the U.S. Post Office.!!!!
When i open a bank account i soon get spam snail mail offers because I was never told I'm automatically opt-in for that bank to sell my info to others ! (unless I opt-out when i finally realize where they are getting my info from ,since the bank nevers tells me they are going to do this!)
When I get a phone, my name and number are automatically OPT-IN to phone directories and other places ( unless I pay extra every month for an unlisted number)
When I buy a house ,the post office sells my info to snail mail companies to fill my street mail box with junk ads and offers because they auto OPT-IN me ! (unless I go down to the post office and request a form to opt-out ,by which time it's too late becaused I've been added to snail-mail spam lists already! )
So get off your @SS Senators and get after these other AUTO OPT-IN info selling pukes too !!!!!!!!!
Article's subtitle should have been: "All Your Face are Belong to U.S.".
Four US senators in outlandish display of hipocrisy -the senators, who kept their mouths shut when the government wiretapped the entire nation now attacks a site where people voluntarily share information amongts themselves.
Facebook is a CIA/NSA data mining operation. They found a way to collect every single piece of information about you without having to do anything to get it. It's brilliant, really, people go on there and post everything about their lives willingly, and all the data is collected and filed.
Facebook has saved the data mining centers millions upon millions of hours of time they would have had to have spent collecting all that data themselves.
And the sooner we all get rid of it, the better off we'll be.
The Internet is a free market. Tired of Facebook's privacy problems? Build your own Facebook. Make sure to find the investor that wants to go in on a website that gives its services away for free and generates no revenue.