Facebook violates Canadian privacy law
[AP] – Canada’s privacy commissioner accused Facebook on Thursday of breaching Canadian law by keeping users’ personal information indefinitely after members close their accounts.
Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart released a report that also accuses Facebook of disclosing personal information about users to the nearly 1 million third-party developers worldwide who create Facebook applications such as games and quizzes.
The popular Web site lacks proper safeguards to prevent these developers from seeing users’ profile information, the report said…..
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