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General => Lobby => Topic started by: Thorin on June 03, 2008, 10:41:43 AM

Title: Facebook and Privacy
Post by: Thorin on June 03, 2008, 10:41:43 AM
http://news.portalit.net/fullnews_facebook-investigated-in-canada-over-shady-privacy-policy_1250.html

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Facebook's privacy policy managed to make some enemies over in Canada. The social networking has been accused of illegally collecting personal information. The matter is currently investigated by the federal privacy commissioner in Canada.

The complaint against Facebook was originally filed by law students at the University of Ottawa. The plaintiffs claim that Facebook has no authorization to collect information such as telephone numbers, birthdays, and instant messaging addresses.

Also, they complain that Facebook is still having trouble to disclose just how do advertisers use the users' personal information and just how much of this info is being served to them by the social networking site.

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All in all, the plaintiffs think that Facebook is guilty of 22 infractions, according to Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA).

PIPEDA?  I think I should learn what that's about...