Law: Explore questions us legislators FTC Facebook over privacy concerns

Jumat, 30 September 2011

Explore questions us legislators FTC Facebook over privacy concerns

Explore questions us legislators FTC Facebook over privacy concerns
Michael Haggerson at 2: 46 PM ET

[JURIST] US Congressman Edward Markey (D - MA) and Joe Barton (R - TX), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus of privacy, sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) [site] on Wednesday to investigate that Facebook [website] tracks user activity, even if they have logged in from the website [text, PDF] questions the FTC allegations. Australian blogger Nik Cubrilovic [official site has the first news [blog post] broke of Facebook users to keep track of and since then one update [blog post], indicating that Facebook has since "changed as they can change the logout issue."] Nevertheless, the Congressman quoted a statement from Facebook Director of engineering, Arturo Bejar, the complete establishment of the logout problem 'will take a while"in a petition for an investigation of the FTC. You believe that Facebook may falls citizens behavior of "Unfair or deceptive acts or practices or the Commerce" § 45 [text] protects 15 USC, section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act [text, PDF], the electronic privacy information center (EPIC) [advocacy website] Facebook sent a letter to the FTC, as well as a study of behavior [letter, PDF;] [Press release] call. EPIC requested, Facebook user data tracks so that it can sell the data to third parties. EPIC has also a complaint about Facebook face detection system [text, PDF], the automatically "user tags" when other of them, currently upload photos pending before the FTC.

The Hamburg Commissioner for data protection and freedom of information [official site on German also appeal a on Facebook face detection system in August, arguing that they European data protection laws [JURIST report injured].] In December, South Korea, said that Facebook not in line with the nation data privacy laws [JURIST was report]. The South Korean authorities has in particular problem with Facebook's alleged policy of user data without first obtain consent from them. The Canadian Office of the Privacy Commissioner [official website announced in January 2010, it's a checkpoint [JURIST report] complaints would start, that the site user privacy has been infringed.] In August 2009 brought five Facebook users against Facebook in California, claiming that their privacy social networking [JURIST report] injured.