Members of the US House Energy and Commerce Committee have sent a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers about the latest privacy scandal in company.
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 of CNBC, an administrator of a Facebook group discovered that a Chrome extension allowed advertisers to collect names and messages electronics post officeof users who were in "closed" Facebook groups.
He claimed that the company was misleading users as they believed that the "closed" groups were completely private. In fact, the company allows third-party applications to collect sensitive information.
This does not seem to be a problem for the majority of Facebook users, otherwise the constant increase of social network members is not explained. But for members of "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 think that sometime the biggest social network will he stop making money from his 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.