Privacy groups ask FTC for Facebook investigation too

Found on ZD Net on Sunday, 02 October 2011
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10 public-interest groups have asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate Facebook’s various business practices. This demand comes right after two similar ones this week: two US congressmen asked the FTC to investigate how Facebook’s cookies behave, and Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has agreed to conduct a privacy audit of Facebook.

They are also concerned about its “frictionless sharing” feature that is available on the newly launched Ticker and the upcoming Timeline and Open Graph rollout announced at f8 last week.

Facebook really needs more than just a little slap on the fingers, otherwise it will keep pushing more and more privacy violations into its network. Now you might find these "features" great, but in a few years this can easily change and there won't be a way for you to remove your data from Facebook's servers when your life has changed and what once was funny becomes embarrassing or even problematic for your career.