Facebook is going down a slippery slope where the website is criticized for exploiting and revealing private information of its users. According to the Wall Street Journal and other foreign news, several groups that support the protection of the security of personal information have filed a claim against Facebook for violating the users' privacy to the Federal Trade Commission (FTA) on December 20, 2009. More specifically, these activist groups state that Facebook's recent revision of their service policy exposes the users' private information online.
Facebook revised and readjusted most of their private policy, in which the users can freely upload and open their personal photos and videos on the website. However, there is a downside to this new revised policy; although it seems to provide more flexibility to its users, the activist groups claim that Facebook made it more inconvenient where the users have to pick and choose which information they do not want to expose on the internet such as personal profile and videos.
Thus, if the users do not keep track of what information they are willing to share, their privacy will be at stake in a second. Therefore, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) officials are throwing harsh criticism to Facebook that it is using conniving tactics to exploit the users' private information. Facebook's backlash against this claim, according to one of the official, is that in the process of revising their policy, they have incorporated opinions of variety of users and the EPIC's judgments are misleading and unfair. In addition the Facebook announced that they will fully explain, step by step, the background of their revision.
