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Facebook Plans to Issue New Privacy Policy
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Mon 02 Nov 2009
Morbid as it sounds, the deceased continue to live on in the World Wide Web - through their social network accounts like Facebook and Myspace. As it is a tricky grey area made worse by progress of digital integration, Facebook has decided to take tighter measures in handling the issue as delicately as possible.
time.com - Canadian privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart investigated the company in July and issued a report that asked Facebook to explain certain areas of its privacy policy, including policies regarding the profiles of deceased users. In response, the company promised to issue a new privacy policy that better articulates how user information is treated postmortem and offered the commissioner an outline of its memorializing policy, nearly three months before the blog post explained it to users. Spokeswoman Anne-Marie Hayden says the privacy commissioner was "quite pleased" with Facebook's response to the office's concerns and says the commissioner will review the detailed version of the site's new policy, expected in late October.
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