Mark Zukerberg Agreed Facebook Committed Privacy Blunders!!

Facebook agrees to settle its disputes with FTC regarding the charges of user’s privacy violations.
In a most recent official blog post released on November29, 2011 from Facebook, its founder mark Zuckerberg has agreed to abide by the instructions as per levied by the FTC concerning the flaws in privacy matters of the social networking site.
The decision from Facebook came inspite of the charges imposed by the Federal Trade Commission after going through an investigation apropos to a complaint filed in December 2009. The complaint thus made in the form of eight counts of privacy violations by the center mentioned about the users’ breach of privacy when the social networking site made some changes in its appearance alongside the other serious offenses.
In the blog post, Mark Zuckerberg himself admitted that a bunch of high profile mistakes made by his company has overshadowed the good work it has done. He further added that the company has provided the users with a unique platform where they can connect and share things with people of their acquaintance. In his admittance, he maintained that the website has always made noteworthy efforts to protect the privacy of users yet the company needs to do much more.
Earlier, the US FTC has closed similar agreements with Twitter and Google as well to make way for fresh privacy standards that could give the users more secure environment over the internet. This settlement from Facebook adds strength to its efforts on a broader perspective. This clearly indicates the volume concern for protection of consumer data in the US.
In his statement to respond to the move by the Facebook founder, Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC says, “Facebook is obligated to keep the promises about privacy that it makes to its hundreds of millions of users. Facebook’s innovation does not have to come at the expense of consumer privacy. The FTC action will ensure it will not”.
Further, expressing happiness on the Zuckerberg’s statement, he said, “I think it’s a really good sign that he acknowledges mistakes the company made,” Leibowitz said. “That can only be good for consumers.”
Among the eight counts of privacy violations, the most serious offence included the breach of private information of the users in public during changes in the website without any prior warning. Third party applications could comfortably access the user’s personal data that should have been limited to the use of some selected information otherwise.
Facebook committed not to share any of its user data with the advertisers, but it did.  Furthermore, it also allowed full access to the user content despite of the account being deleted.
In the settlement that Zuckerberg made, he agreed to remove all these and other flaws included in the eight-point count that could provide better transparency to the users while they share their private data through Facebook.