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Facebook Privacy Changes Claimed as Unfair and Deceptive

On December 17, 2009, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) petitioned the Federal Trade Commission claiming that changes to Facebook user privacy settings constituted an unfair and deceptive practice.

In early November and December, 2009, Facebook changed the process by which users set their respective privacy settings. EPIC alleges that the changes are confusing, replace the simple complete opt-out of information sharing through the Facebook Platform and Facebook Connect functions, and require third party application users to provide developers with personal information that users formerly would have been able to prevent application developers from accessing. The complaint requests that the FTC compel Facebook to restore its former privacy settings.

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