The co-chairmen of the Congressional Privacy Caucus said in separate statements Friday...
The co-chairmen of the Congressional Privacy Caucus said in separate statements Friday they remain concerned that Facebook plans to offer its services to children. The comments came after Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan told lawmakers in a letter made…
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public Friday (http://xrl.us/bngrn2) the company had made “no final decision” on whether it will change its policies to allow children to join. Caucus Co-Chairman Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., urged Facebook to “resist the impulse” to harvest children’s personal information for advertising revenue. “The privacy of personal information for pre-teens should not become a post-script in Facebook’s drive for profits,” he said. Co-Chairman Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, asked the company to “carefully consider” privacy protections for children as it contemplates giving them access to Facebook services. Markey and Barton are both sponsors of the Do Not Track Kids Act (HR-1895), which has been before the House Commerce Committee for more than a year. Facebook did not comment.