Facebook To Feds: Leave Room For Innovation
Regulation of consumer privacy online needs to allow for future innovations. That's the gist of Facebook's formal response to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commissions's proposals to protecting consumer privacy online.
Regulation of consumer privacy online needs to allow for future innovations.
That’s the gist of Facebook’s formal response to the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Federal Trade Commissions’s proposals to protecting consumer privacy online.
Facebook Chief Privacy Counsel Michael Richter submitted the 14-page legal treatise this past week. The social network officially agrees with suggestions by the federal agencies, claiming that the site already embraces the best practices outlined by the FTC and Commerce Department.
Facebook lets people opt out of targeted advertising schemes in the privacy settings; the social network has also cracked down on third-party data brokers, and at least temporarily stopped sharing individual members’ addresses and mobile phone numbers with third-party developers.
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