Facebook Facing More Privacy Issues

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Facebook is quickly becoming the poster child for the growing online privacy debate on Capitol Hill. Now the social networking behemoth is under the microscope after the launch of a new opt-in feature that lets users share their addresses and mobile phone numbers with external Web sites and applications.

In a three-page letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Reps. Ed Markey, D-Mass., and Joe Barton, R-Tex., the co-chairmen of the House Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, requested more details on the feature and posed a number of questions about it.

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