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With Mark Zuckerman at their head, managers of the Fa$ebook advertising site are sophists supreme.

They prevaricate, they dissemble. They say they’ll do this, and they do that instead. They pretend they have nothing but users’ best privacy interests at heart, at the same time trying to covertly pilfer personal data.

In December, “It has been a great year for making the world more open and connected,” said social advertising company Fa$ebook’s Mark Zuckerberg said in an open letter which stated:

“Starting with the very first version of Facebook five years ago, we’ve built tools that help you control what you share with which individuals and groups of people. Our work to improve privacy continues today.”

Seeing ‘open and connected’ in the same sentence as Zuckerberg was something of an oxymoron, p2pnet noted.

Fa$ebook has “rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner issued in July and most recently by a Norwegian consumer protection agency,” said the EFF’s Kevin Bankston in his detailed Deep Links report.

Now, “In response to a new public complaint, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is once again launching an investigation into Facebook, the social networking site whose privacy policies and practices were the subject of a comprehensive probe by her Office last summer,” says commissioner’s office, going on >>>

In response to a new public complaint, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is once again launching an investigation into Facebook, the social networking site whose privacy policies and practices were the subject of a comprehensive probe by her Office last summer.

The complaint focuses on a tool introduced by Facebook in mid-December 2009, which required users to review their privacy settings. The complainant alleges that the new default settings would have made his information more readily available than the settings he had previously put in place.

“The individual’s complaint mirrors some of the concerns that our Office has heard and expressed to Facebook in recent months,” said Elizabeth Denham, the Assistant Privacy Commissioner who spearheaded the original investigation and follow-up.

“Some Facebook users are disappointed by certain changes being made to the site – changes that were supposed to strengthen their privacy and the protection of their personal information.”

In July 2009, Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart released findings of an in-depth examination of the privacy issues raised by the California-based site, which now claims 350 million users worldwide.

Key concerns highlighted in the report related to Facebook’s transparency and clarity – specifically, the need to better explain how it handles the personal information in its care. The report also recommended that Facebook provide users with increased control over their personal information. In August, following intensive discussions, Facebook agreed to modify its site in ways that would address the Commissioner’s concerns.

Since then, however, changes to the site’s privacy information, settings and tools have sparked criticism from users who feel that personal information posted to the site is, in some instances, even more exposed now than before.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada will investigate the complaint it has received, while continuing to follow up with Facebook as it introduces new changes to its site. The company committed last August to resolving within a year all of the concerns raised in the first investigation report.

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