FTC Complaint Being Filed Against Facebook
Posted by Nick O'Neill on November 28th, 2007 8:21 PMAccording to MediaPost, the Electronic Privacy Information Center plans on filing an FTC complaint against Facebook regarding their SocialAds service as well as Facebook Beacon. A number of companies have been hopping on the bandwagon that was started by MoveOn.org just a few days ago.
According to the article, “‘Part of what Facebook is doing is taking from people the value of their endorsements, which traditionally is something that people can be compensated for, and selling it back to their advertisers,’ says EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg.” This issue has already been brought up and questions about its legality have already been published.
Suddenly Facebook has come under fire for their new services that test the limits of user privacy. While this may eventually blow over, I think something has got to give before everything settles down. Most likely, I envision Facebook adding the global opt-out feature that a lot of users have been calling on Facebook to add to their Beacon service. Do you think these new allegations will be heard by the FTC?
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November 29th, 2007 at 2:36 am
Ooooo, yes please - a global opt-out like, er, yesterday!
With the eyebrow-raising Facebook publicity of late, Mark would do well to implement such a welcome feature asap.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:36 am
Ooooo, yes please - a global opt-out like, er, yesterday!
With the eyebrow-raising Facebook publicity of late, Mark would do well to implement such a welcome feature asap.
November 29th, 2007 at 3:41 am
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November 29th, 2007 at 10:04 am
theres nothin wrong with face book keeps people intouch with family ; friends exc Isen;t there anything else people can do beside bitch about face book In the further I;d like to hear about something else for a change I;am sure others will totally agree with what I;am saying go after these hackers and leave face book a lone.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:04 am
theres nothin wrong with face book keeps people intouch with family ; friends exc Isen;t there anything else people can do beside bitch about face book In the further I;d like to hear about something else for a change I;am sure others will totally agree with what I;am saying go after these hackers and leave face book a lone.
November 25th, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Hello!!
My account on Facebook has been deactivated because the number of clips I’ve posted on my profile page was beyond their quota. What I don’t understand is once they flagged me with a warning before cutting me off, I’ve stopped. But, the day after i was cut without warning while I was just sending a thank you email for a friend that have accepted me as a friend.
I don’t think they should have cut me. I Obed to their rules once I’ve received the warning. Something is wrong with their software for it deactivates people account even when they receive a first warning and they obey. That’s not fair. I replied to their Warning Email and asked for an explanation and a last chance assuring them that I won’t post anymore clips on my profile page (musical clips only) if this is too much of a problem. But, they push the arrogance by not answering back to users as they do most of the time when there’s a problem.
Thank you for any help !!!
Regards,