Privacy Group Calls on FTC to Probe Facebook Timeline

Facebook's Timeline feature has been rubbing the Electronic Privacy Information Center the wrong way ever since the "frictionless sharing" tool was announced last September. Now EPIC is complaining to the Federal Trade Commission that Timeline violates a settlement deal Facebook made with the agency in November.

"Having just reached a settlement with the Commission in which the company is required to take several steps to make sure it lives up to its promises in the future, including giving consumers clear and prominent notice and obtaining consumers' express consent before their information is shared beyond the privacy settings they have established, Facebook is changing the privacy settings of its users in a way that gives the company far greater ability to disclose their personal information than in the past," EPIC wrote in its letter

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