The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has launched a new investigation into Facebook's privacy practices. The new investigation stems from a complaint filed in the wake of Facebook changing its privacy default settings.
Privacy Commissioner Launches New Facebook Investigation
January 28, 2010
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Episode 275: David Loukidelis on Why Stripping Privacy Enforcement from Canada’s Privacy Commissioner in Bill C-36 is Unnecessarily Risky Policy
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When I joined Facebook, it sucked out all names form my Address Book in my computer and in my name “invited” all my friends former lovers and foes to my “group” on Facebook. This is not acceptable and should be considered invasion of privacy of the worst kind.
The question was “are you going to recommend it to your friends?” When I clicked “Yes” it sucked all the names without giving me a chance to select them. I noticed that another company offering storage “in a cloud” iDrive.com tried the same trick, but I would not let them. I just wonder how safe is my backup in a cloud with them?