Facebook doubtlessly hoped forcing open. user profiles would help the social network compete more profitably with open systems like Twitter. But there could well be a multi-million-dollar price to pay for the aggressive change, particularly if Facebook broke the law. There's been a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, after all, as True/Slant's Kashmir Hill has written. Facebook altered its Privacy Policy. to strip protections from data like friends lists and profile pictures. But it turns out you're not allowed to do that by fiat, you need to explicitly get permission from users, something Facebook's "transition tool" failed to do, even as it allowed users to keep other types of data private. Writes Hill, a sometime legal blogger: In 2004, Gateway did something similar, changing its privacy policy to make it okay to sell information it had gathered for Hooked On Phonics users to third parties. It got into trouble for that. It had to revert to its old privacy policy, and pay a
Making Facebook Pay [Your Privacy Is An Illustion]
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