Thursday, September 29, 2011
Lawmakers want Facebook FTC probe-Summary
In this story Ed Markey, Representive of Massachusetts, and Joe Barton, Representive of Texas, were angry at Facebook for having cookies sent to their computer even after they logged off Facebook. They filed a complaint to the FTC for an investigation on the social-networking site. A spokesman from Facebook said "there was no security or privacy breach? Facebook did not store or use any information it should not have." The spokesman added that three cookies on some users' computers "inadvertently included unique identifiers when the user had logged out of Facebook." After Facebook was alerted about the cookies they fixed them so it wouldn't happen again.
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I think that it is stupid for Ed and Joe to get mad at Facebook just because it sent cookies to their computers. Every website you visit is going to send you cookies and nobody ever request a investigation of those websites. If they don't like Facebook then they might as well not use it.
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