{"id":62098,"date":"2012-11-27T14:51:45","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=62098"},"modified":"2012-11-27T14:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T14:51:45","slug":"privacy-groups-call-for-facebook-changes-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/privacy-groups-call-for-facebook-changes-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy Groups Call For Facebook Changes U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"story_continues_1\">&#8220;Two US privacy groups have asked Facebook to reconsider proposed changes to its terms of service that they say violate commitments to protect users.\u00a0The social network plans to end user voting on its privacy policy, and allow the sharing of information across its services.\u00a0Facebook is also planning to get rid of a setting for users to control who can contact them on its email system.\u00a0So far\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/fbsitegovernance\/app_4949752878\">the proposed changes\u00a0<\/a>have garnered more than 18,000 comments.&#8221; BBC reports.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/technology-20509264\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read the letter from Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) And\u00a0Center for Digital Democracy <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/epic.org\/privacy\/facebook\/EPIC-CDD-Ltr-to-FB-Data-Use.pdf\">here<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":62099,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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