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"Facebook has agreed to settle Federal Trade brokerage charges that it bamboozle* consumers by telling them they could keep their backbone on Facebook private, and then repeatedly allowing it to be shared and made public. The amends is soft on Facebook; there are no fines or unlawful penalties. by the numbers to the FTC, in December 2009, Facebook 'changed its website so certain matter that users may have bound for as private – such as their Friends List – was made public. Facebook didn't warn users that this change was coming, or get their acclamatory in advance.' Among the other complaints (PDF), 'Facebook represented that third-party apps that users' installed would have access only to user pipeline that they needed to operate. In fact, the apps could access nearly all of users' join now!www.match.com

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The resolution demands that Facebook avoid any new deceptive privacy claims, and also that users must give open concurrence for changes to be made to their privacy preferences. Facebook will be audited every two years for the next two decades to make sure they're holding up their end of the settlement. In a lengthy presentment on Facebook's blog, Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged that they'd made mistakes.

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