Facebook and Privacy: What a Mess - by JR Raphael

Facebook has just unveiled a new set of user controls, but it isn't likely to do much in the way of calming anger about the social network's privacy policies. Amidst a brewing backlash against the social network and the privacy labyrinth it's created, the company is now getting an unpleasant poke from European privacy protectors.

The Article 29 Working Party, a confusingly named division of the European Union's Justice and Home Affairs' Data Protection division, sent a letter to Facebook expressing its discontent over the social network's slew of recent privacy changes. From the UJHADPA29WP, as it shall henceforth be known:

"The Article 29 Working Party, the group of European data protection authorities, told Facebook in a letter today that it is unacceptable that the company fundamentally changed the default settings on its social-networking platform to the detriment of a user."

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