[HIB]Privacy Advocates Not Ready to Let Facebook Off the Hook

The issue of privacy has been nagging Facebook for quite awhile now, and it looks like advocacy groups are still not happy with the company’s progress in the space. In an open letter to CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the ACLU, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and eight other groups are asking the site to do more.“?We are glad to see that Facebook has taken steps in the past weeks to address some of its outstanding privacy problems,” the letter begins. Among the recommendations is to give users more control over exactly which applications may access their information, as well as more control over how their information is shared with external sites.Facebook’s “Like” button gets some of this ire, especially the site’s new offering to place it off site (which you see here on Technologizer). For those of you logged into Facebook, even if you do not click the button the site still knows you were here. While any data is anonymized after 90 days, the groups argue it should be anonymized completely if you do not interact with it at all.

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