News : Facebook admits "mistakes" on privacy

New York, United States of America (CNN) - approved site Facebook on the agreement a 20-year, under which to review the extent of his commitment to the privacy of accounts subscriber, in the settlement of the issue of long brought to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, accusing the site of misleading its members on how to use their own data.
The Federal Trade Commission in its complaint that Facebook "deceived consumers (members) by saying to them that their information on Facebook are kept secret, while repeatedly allowed the participation of such information to the public."
The complaint lists several examples of "false promises of Facebook," most of which occurred several years ago.
And one of these examples took place in December / December 2009, when Facebook changed its shape, which made some of the information sent by users to a special group of friends, become known to the world, without that warns users about this change.
He said the Federal Trade Commission of America said that those changes "was unfair and misleading, and violated federal law."
Said Jon Leibowitz Chairman Federal Trade Commission in a statement that "innovation in Facebook may not come at the expense of consumer privacy."
Under the settlement terms, Facebook will be subject to the review the Privacy Policy every two years over the next 20 years. Was signed by each of the "Twitter" and "Google" recently similar agreements with the Federal Trade Commission.
Commented Mark Zuckerberg founder of Facebook to the settlement, saying "Overall, I think that we have a good history of providing transparency and control over who can see your information .. I am the first to admit that we made a series of mistakes."