30.07.2014 - 00:13 [ Common Dreams ]

Privacy Groups Push Back Against Latest Facebook Tracking Scheme

In a letter (pdf) sent Tuesday, the London-based Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) — a network whose members include the US-based Center for Media and Democracy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Public Citizen, as well as several European rights groups — expressed „deep alarm“ about the „vast expansion“ of Facebook‘s data collection practices, which the company announced in a blog post last month.