Okay, so Canada's Privacy Commissioner says that Facebook has multiple privacy issues that need to be taken care of. The commissioner set a "probe" to check out Facebook's privacy practices in response to a complaint received.
It appears that there are at least four main areas of concern:
- The excessive amount of personal user information given to third party application developers from all around the world.
- The inability of a user to delete their account, which would eliminate their personal information from Facebook servers permanently. Currently, users can only deactivate their account.
- The lack of information provided to users about how their friends can gain access to their personal information.
- The fact that personal information about non-users is collected and used within Facebook.
One point that was shocking to me a statement within this report said, "For example, a user is not made aware that if they enter their date of birth on their profile page, that date of birth is shared with advertisers. "
I know this happens many of times all over the place on the net but typically it is written in the fine print of their TOS(Term of Service) that you are allowing them to do this. Thus the reason they have words in bold nearby to such things telling you to READ THIS!
So from that Facebook has conjured up a statement released Thursday, the company said: "As part of our continued leadership in developing privacy tools that advance user control over their information, Facebook will soon be introducing a number of new additional privacy features to its service that we believe will address any remaining concerns the privacy commission may have."
I suppose we'll see in the upcoming future?
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