Members of the Energy and Commerce Committee of the US House of Representatives sent a letter to its CEO Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, demanding answers about the company's latest privacy scandal.
The American lawmakers sent her their letter today (PDF) when a group of privacy experts revealed yesterday that they filed a complaint against Facebook with the US Federal Trade Board last December.
The complaint includes 43 pages, (available here as PDF), and accuses Facebook of misleading users belonging to its "closed" groups.
According to one Publication του CNBC, ένας διαχειριστής μιας ομάδας στο Faceboοk ανακάλυψε ότι μια επέκταση του Chrome επέτρεπε στους διαφημιζόμενους να συλλέγουν ονόματα και μηνύματα ηλεκτρονικού post officeof users who were in "closed" Facebook groups.
He claimed that the company is misleading users into believing that "closed" groups are completely private. In fact the company allows to applications third parties to collect sensitive information.
That for the majority of Facebook users doesn't seem to be the case problem, otherwise the continuous increase in the members of the social network is not explained. But for the members of the "closed" groups, this behavior could at least be considered harassment.
"This consumer complaint raises a number of concerns about Facebook's privacy policies and practices," Energy and Commerce officials said in an open letter.
"Marking these groups as closed may mislead Facebook users into joining them and revealing more personal information than they would normally disclose."
What will happen now; Mark will answer and reassure everyone until the next scandal. Do you really believe that at some point the biggest social network will stop earning money from its members?
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As you have said "sorry is cheaper than the revenue generated by the facebook store".
So, they would only resort to this as a last resort.