FTC complaint says Facebook's privacy changes are deceptive: Via Law & Disorder Section - Ars Technica.

Facebook claimed it was doing the world a favor when it updated how the site handles privacy settings earlier this month, but the change has done nothing but get the company in even more hot water. Amid heavy criticism from rights and privacy groups, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) has called on the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the changes that it says mislead users and "contradict Facebook’s own representations."

Facebook has always had pretty detailed (if not overly complex) privacy settings. As we detailed in our own guide to Facebook's privacy controls from earlier this year, these settings allow people to granularly control how each type of information is shared with others and who sees what at any given time. However, many users were painfully unaware that these settings existed, resulting in numerous embarrassments, job losses, and more—all because of misplaced Facebook postings.

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