Facebook has been accused of a not fair and misleading business for changing privacy settings without informing the websites users. So on this upcoming Tuesday the Government demanded that the Facebook Company has to make an agreement with users before making any privacy setting changes. Also Facebook has to examine themselves on people's privacy for 20 years. The Federal Trade Commission stated that Facebook changed its privacy settings back in December of 2009.They made user’s public information private without a heads up or asking permission. Also if a user clicked on an advertisement it would allow the advertiser to have access to that person’s information and that resulted to letting another person view anything that the user said only friends can view. That incident was found to happen 8 times, but if it ever happens in the future Facebook would be charged with $16,000 everyday for each violation. Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook's founder admitted to the many mistakes made and stated those mistakes have been fixed.Well I agree with the fact that Facebook should inform users before privacy settings for the website. I agree because having users get used to unexpected changes would get them irritated and mad.
Also the privacy changes make horrible changes like for example, advertisers can see all the users information when the click on the advertisement. If users have certain things private on there profile it's for a reason. The privacy change doesn’t help users get protected! I believe Facebook should just leave the privacy settings alone and keep them how they were.-nytimes.com
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