[LINK] Facebook and privacy

[Roger Clarke]

At 4:43 AM +0000 28/4/10, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>Senators tell Facebook: ...
>"Providing opt-in mechanisms for information sharing instead of expecting
>users to go through long and complicated opt-out processes is a critical
>step."

Good one!!

It's taken a long time for opt-in/consent to become an idea in good 
standing in the USA.  Slowly, corporate excesses are cumulating 
sufficiently to cause change.


>FTC spokeswoman Claudia Bourne Farrell said in a telephone call that the
>agency planned "to develop a framework that social networks and others
>will use to guide their data collection, use and sharing practices."

In other words, their previous guidelines failed ...


[The Washington Post re-print is here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/27/AR2010042702969.html

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