Black Hawk Mines: Myspace Settled FTC Pobe
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The one-time leading social networking site Myspace has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade
Commission over the...
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Black Hawk Mines: Myspace Settled FTC Pobe
http://updates.
my-blackhawkmines.
com/2012/06/black-hawk-mines-myspace-settled-ftc-pobe/
The one-time leading social networking site Myspace has reached a settlement with the Federal Trade
Commission over the privacy probe recently conducted.
Myspace was charged with representing its privacy policies to its users, which brings to mind similar
deals agreed upon by Google and Facebook on respective FTC investigations involving them.
FTC announced last week that despite Myspace’s telling users that it will not share personally identifiable
data with others; it gave advertisers “Friend ID” numbers of users.
This enabled advertisers to search the
users’ publicly available personal data such as full names and could even lead to discovery of their web
activity.
The terms of the settlement specified that Myspace is not going to misrepresent its privacy policies while
implementing a comprehensive privacy program.
In addition, the two parties agre
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