[LINK] Fwd: [EPIC NEWS] EPIC Defends FB Users. EPIC Needs Your Support.

Roger Clarke Roger.Clarke at xamax.com.au
Fri Feb 20 08:14:21 AEDT 2009


>Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 11:29:46 -0500
>From: EPIC Alert <alert at epic.org>
>To: epic_news at mailinglists.epic.org
>Subject: [EPIC NEWS] EPIC Defends FB Users. EPIC Needs Your Support.
>
>Dear EPIC Alert Subscriber,
>
>This week Facebook, the popular social network service, announced
>that it would restore its original privacy policy, ending a growing
>protest that had galvanized bloggers and Facebook users all around
>the world.
>
>One popular consumer site first drew attention to the change that
>transferred control over the user content -- the photos and comments
>that everyone now posts -- from the user to Facebook. Several
>Facebook Groups were formed. The Facebook Group "People
>Against the New Terms of Service (TOS)" gathered over 100,000
>users in support.
>
>It was EPIC, though, that prepared the complaint for the Federal
>Trade Commission that led Facebook to back down. Building on EPIC's
>expertise with similar cases in the past and working closely with
>the people organizing the campaign and consumer experts, we
>developed  the legal arguments and the factual record that we knew
>would have an impact in Washington.
>
>Facebook knew it, too. It was EPIC that filed the complaint against
>Choicepoint that led to the biggest privacy judgment in the FTC's
>history. It was EPIC that got Microsoft to revise Passport, after an
>FTC investigation. And it was EPIC that almost got the Trade
>Commission to impose privacy safeguards for the Google-Doubleclick
>merger.
>
>We are glad that Facebook has gone back to its original policy and
>also that it is committed to a more open process going forward. This
>does not end the debate over privacy by any means, but it is a step
>in the right direction.
>
>It is also a reason that you, as an EPIC Alert subscriber or a
>Facebook user, should take a couple of minutes and make a
>contribution to EPIC. Your support makes it possible for us to
>pursue these cases and to defend your rights.
>
>  Donate to EPIC:
>  https://secure.groundspring.org/dn/index.php?aid=17054
>
>
>Thank you for your support.
>
>Marc Rotenberg
>EPIC Executive Director
>rotenberg at epic.org
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Roger Clarke                                 http://www.rogerclarke.com/

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Visiting Professor in Info Science & Eng  Australian National University
Visiting Professor in the eCommerce Program      University of Hong Kong
Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre      Uni of NSW



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