Privacy rights group, others seek Facebook investigation
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, ACLU and several other civil rights and privacy groups are asking the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Facebook for its tracking of users on websites after they have logged out of the social networking site.
Facebook says it has stopped the practice, but that is not stopping the uproar about it. Reps. Edward Markey and Joe Barton, co-chairs of Congress's Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, also want the FTC to look into the issue.
EPIC and the ACLU are joined by the American Library Association, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, The Center for Digital Democracy, The Center for Media and Democracy, Consumer Action, Consumer Watchdog, PrivacyActivism and Privacy Times in seeking the probe.
