Attorney General Racine Joins Bipartisan Coalition Seeking Information on 脸谱网 Business Practices

2018年4月10日

司法部长卡尔·A. Racine joined a bipartisan coalition of 37 state and territorial attorneys general in sending a letter demanding answers from 脸谱网 CEO Mark Zuckerberg about the company’s business practices and privacy protections.

“Thousands of District residents log on to 脸谱网 every day to connect with friends, 家庭, 和邻居, and they should not have to worry that their personal information is being harvested for unauthorized purposes,司法部长拉辛说. “I’m proud to join a bipartisan coalition of attorneys general in demanding answers from 脸谱网 to protect consumers and the privacy of their accounts.”

As the attorneys general write in their letter to Zuckerberg, news reports indicate the data of at least 50 million 脸谱网 profiles may have been misused by third-party software developers. 脸谱网’s policies allowed developers to access the personal data of “friends” of people who used certain applications – without the knowledge or consent of these users. 给扎克伯格的信, initiated by 宾西法尼亚 Attorney General Josh Shapiro, raises a series of questions about the social networking site’s policies and practices, 包括:

• Were the terms of service clear and understandable?
• How did 脸谱网 monitor what these developers did with all the data that they collected?
• What type of controls did 脸谱网 have over the data given to developers?
• Did 脸谱网 have protective safeguards in place, 其中包括审计, to ensure developers were not misusing the 脸谱网 user’s data?
• How many users in the states of the signatory attorneys general were affected?
• When did 脸谱网 learn of this breach of privacy protections?
• 在这段时间内, what other third party “research” applications were also able to access the data of unsuspecting 脸谱网 users?

The attorneys general write in the letter: “脸谱网 apparently contends that this incident of harvesting tens of millions of profiles was not the result of a technical data breach; however, the reports allege that 脸谱网 gave away the personal data of users who never authorized these developers to obtain it, and relied on terms of service and settings that were confusing and perhaps misleading to its users.”

The letter was led by Attorneys General Shapiro (D-Pennsyvania), 蒂姆·福克斯(蒙大拿州共和党), 艾伦·罗森布鲁姆(俄勒冈州民主党), Marty Jackley (R-南达科塔州) and George Jepsen (D-康涅狄格).

除了司法部长拉辛, the letter was signed by attorneys general from Alabama, 美属萨摩亚, 加州, 科罗拉多州, 康涅狄格, 特拉华州, 关岛, 夏威夷, 爱达荷州, 伊利诺斯州, 爱荷华州, 堪萨斯, 肯塔基州, 缅因州, 马里兰, 麻萨诸塞州, 密歇根, 明尼苏达州, 密西西比州, 密苏里州, 蒙大拿, 新汉普郡, 新泽西, 新墨西哥, 纽约, 北卡罗莱纳, 北达科他, 俄亥俄州, 俄勒冈州, 宾西法尼亚, 罗德岛州, 南达科塔州, 田纳西州, 佛蒙特州, 弗吉尼亚和华盛顿.

To view a copy of the letter and the full list of signatories, please 点击这里.