It’s time for Congress to act on Facebook’s privacy policies. Here’s how.
It seemed as though, after years of privacy scandals, Facebook had finally gotten the message. After its founder hinted at a shift to a privacy-oriented model in a blog post earlier this year, the company elaborated at F8 this week by unveiling its new look, FB5, that includes features such as encryption, reduced permanence and secure data storage. This might sound promising — but it’s not yet time to let Facebook off the hook. If the recent announcement that Facebook stored hundreds of millions of users’ passwords in plaintext for years is any indication, Facebook’s external reorientation has a lot of work to do to make up for its ongoing internal privacy failures. Facebook already has a wealth of personal data on you, far beyond phone numbers, message content or photographs. New ID Experts research is showing that the platform’s users – as many as 68% of them – aren’t happy with that fact. Additionally, The Wall Street Journal revealed that the social media giant may […]
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