Privacy Groups Go Public with Federal Complaint about Facebook

According to the American Libraries News Feed, Privacy Groups Go Public with Federal Complaint about Facebook.

Concerned about protecting the privacy of library patrons and other individuals who have Facebook accounts, the American Library Association has joined nine other organizations in filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission regarding Facebook’s recent changes to its policies. Other groups joining ALA and  the Electronic Privacy Information Center  (EPIC) in the complaint include The Center for Digital Democracy, Consumer Federation of America, FoolProof Financial Education, Patient Privacy Rights, Privacy Activism, Privacy Rights Now Coalition, The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the U.S. Bill of Rights Foundation.

The December 17 complaint written by the Electronic Privacy Information Center contends that changes to users’ privacy settings that Facebook announced December 9 in actuality “disclose personal information to the public [and] violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook’s own representations.”