Facebook Fights U.S. Pressure Over WikiLeaks
Facebook is trying to develop a consistent set of policies to protect users' privacy against pressure from the U.S. government to release data associated with WikiLeaks.
Facebook’s fight against government pressure to cut ties with WikiLeaks and release the personal data of those users might seem to contradict how the social network operates with respect to third-party developers, although neither happens without permission.
Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes told InfoWorld that the social network is “required to regularly push back against over-broad requests for user records. … in most cases we are able to convince the party issuing legal process to withdraw the overbroad request, but if they do not we fight the matter in court” and have a history of success in those cases.
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