Members of its Energy and Commerce Committee ParliamentThe US House of Representatives has sent a letter to Facebook CEO 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 of CNBC, an administrator of a Facebook group, discovered that a Chrome extension allowed advertisers to collect names and emails of 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 third-party apps to collect sensitive data 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.
"The episignalMarking these groups as closed may mislead Facebook users into joining them and revealing more personal information than would normally be revealed.”
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.