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U.S. lawmakers ask Facebook to block third parties easy access
U.S. Senators on Wednesday asked the Facebook high command to make sure that the sensitive information of users is not divulged through back door as third parties are allowed access to basic information of the users.
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Tejinder Singh
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March 9, 2011 4:28 p.m. EST
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Computer Crime, Internet, Crime, Arts, Culture And Entertainment, Crime, Law And Justice
U.S. senators on Wednesday asked Facebook to make sure that sensitive user information is not easily divulged to third parties. In a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law Al Franken (D-MN) and Sens. Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) called for scrapping “plans that could reveal sensitive personal information about its 147 million American users, making them easy targets for fraud, theft, and abuse.”
“Anyone with ten minutes, $25, and a Facebook user’s phone number and address and no other information can obtain a breathtaking amount of information about that Facebook user—and that Facebook user’s family, friends, neighbors, and landlord,” the senators wrote. “Combined with a targeted Google search, these two pieces of information can allow someone to obtain almost all of the information necessary to complete a loan or credit card application. It is hard to contemplate all of the different ways in which this information could be abused."
Arguing that Americans who use Facebook, especially the 13 million users who are under 18, may be exposing sensitive personal data such as mobile phone numbers and home addresses to third parties, the senators asked Zuckerberg to reconsider Facebook’s policy or at least take some commonsense steps to block those under 18 from revealing this information, inform other users of the risks of doing so, or allow those users to opt out.
Last year, Sens. Franken, Schumer, Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Mark Begich (D-AK) wrote to Facebook urging the company to fix its privacy policy to block users’ personal information from being accessed by third parties without the users’ consent.
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