Markey Fired Up Over Facebook Privacy Changes
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is concerned over the changes Facebook announced last month regarding its privacy policies.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) is concerned over the changes Facebook announced last month regarding its privacy policies.
Markey is so concerned, in fact, that he fired off a letter to the Federal Trade Commission Wednesday, which coincides with the FTC’s announcement that it is launching an investigation into whether the changes affect an agreement the social network made with the government in 2011.
That agreement states that Facebook must get user consent before making changes to how customer data are used, and it bars the social network from sharing users’ information with third parties without their “affirmative express consent.”
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