Privacy advocates file official complaint over Facebook update
Privacy groups have filed complaints with US regulator the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) over Facebook's latest privacy changes. The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) claimed in a statement that it had been joined by nine other privacy organisations in requesting the FTC to investigate recent changes to Facebook's privacy settings.
Since the changes were made, Facebook has been criticised by groups such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Civil Liberties Union and EPIC for encouraging users to share more information than they had previously.
Users were met with a privacy transition tool after the changes took place earlier this month, advising them to share their social networking content with everyone on the internet rather than the previous default, which was limited to a user's networks and friends.
