Under increasing pressure from users, privacy advocates and government
officials, Facebook is planning to take up the issue at a company-wide
meeting.
Facebook has run into a bit of an image problem lately. The
company has taken a lot of heat for playing fast and loose with its
users' privacy, and government officials have been asking some troubling
questions.
The company has confirmed that it plans to hold an
all-hands meeting this afternoon to discuss its approach to privacy on
the heels of a slew of changes to the site that have alarmed many users.
In the meantime, government scrutiny continues, with
European data-collection authorities delivering a letter to the company
urging it to loosen up its privacy controls and warning that it could
run afoul of EU law.
eSecurity Planet takes a look at Facebook's
latest privacy imbroglio.
Amid rising concerns that
the world's biggest social network is putting its users' privacy at
risk, Facebook has confirmed that it is holding an all-hands company
meeting this afternoon to discuss the issue.
"We have an open culture and it should come as no surprise that
we're providing a forum for employees to ask questions on a topic that
has received a lot of outside interest," Facebook spokesman Andrew Noyes
told InternetNews.com in an e-mail.
Noyes declined to comment on what, if any, policy changes might
come out of the meeting.