Facebook Accused of Several Mistakes that it Had Made

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 01 December 2011, 01:24 IST   |    4 Comments
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In regards to the accusation Mark Zukerberg, the Co- Founder of Facebook in a blog post stated that "I'm the first to admit that we'have made a bunch of mistakes," He said a few "high-profile" mistakes, such as changes to the service's privacy policy two years ago, "have often overshadowed much of the good work we have done".

Four years ago in 2007, Facebook have made a mistake on the feature named beacon which created a considerable controversy for its poor privacy settings. In 2009 the company was also accused by Federal Trade commission for a list of privacy violation. These included declining to tell users that information shared with friends was also being shared with the applications their friends installed, even if they themselves had not installed those apps; one-sidedly making every user's list of Facebook friends available to the public; and revealing personal information to advertisers despite repeated pledges not to do so.