Canadian privacy law conducts an investigation and found the Facebook networking sites needs to practice and improve its user’s privacy. Privacy Commissioner recommends a process to assure social networking site better in protecting the user’s privacy and make sure that they will meet the Canadian privacy legislation requirements. According to the investigation of Canada Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart on July 16, 2009 that it is very clear that issues of user’s privacy are a top mind for Facebook but yet they have found out a serious privacy gaps the way that a Facebook sites operates.

The investigation, provoked by a Canadian Public Interest Clinic and Internet Policy complaint that they have notified several areas of Facebook where needs to better take in hand privacy issues and take its practices in the policy with Canadian privacy law. One of the significant concerns also raised is the sharing of the personal information of the user with the third-party developers in creating the applications of Facebook such as quizzes and games. There are over 950,000 developers in several 180 countries which the investigation found out that Facebook lacks sufficient safeguards to restrict effectively the outside developers from getting an access of the profile information. They recommend several changes such as technological measures to assure that developers can just access the information of the user only required in running a specific application and also those deactivated accounts personal information will be deleted after a practical length of time. With this, Facebook has agreed to take on several of these recommendations stemming from the investigation of Privacy Commissioner but however it has not agreed yet for it takes reasonable alternatives to implement.

Recently the Facebook investigation result has announced a latest privacy tool for the site that aimed in giving the users more control over that gets to view each item on their Facebook.

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