International privacy groups seek government action against Facebook

(July 31, 2014) -- Expressing “deep alarm” over Facebook’s announcement in June that it plans to collect the web browsing activities of Internet users for targeted advertising, the Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue, a group of U.S. and EU privacy organizations, recently wrote a letter asking the FTC and the Irish Data Protection Commissioner to take action to stop the company’s proposed changes. In the letter dated July 29, the group urged the government agencies to determine whether the changes that Facebook has made comply with U.S. and EU law....

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