Now being monitored, Facebook has acknowledged his deceptions

According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the social networking site misled users regarding confidentiality to "numerous occasions". As a result, Facebook will be placed under surveillance for 20 years.
Facebook has agreed to consider the charges of the Federal Trade Commission, which estimates that social network users misled "on numerous occasions," said one side than the private information of their users were protected, while another, the network has shared several times, as stated by the FTC. The American institution noted that in a "number of situations," Facebook had done for the protection of user privacy, promises that "she had not taken," the FTC said in its statement.
In its complaint in eight points, made public Tuesday, the Commission also accused the site of unfair and deceptive trade practices. "Facebook must keep the promises it has made hundreds of millions of users, in terms of privacy," said Jon Leibowitz, chairman of the FTC. "His innovation has not come at the expense of privacy of the user. The FTC will ensure that this is not the case. "
Monitoring similar to Google
Under the proposed agreement, Facebook no longer make new misleading advertisements relating to confidentiality and the company is obliged to obtain approval of the users before changing the way the network share their data. The proposed regulation also requires the FTC to submit it to the regular assessment of its practices for the protection of privacy, by independent experts during the next 20 years. "The agreement does not include financial sanctions, because the Commission has no power to impose fines for violations of the FTC Act," said its president.
"However, if Facebook does not comply with these new commitments, the social network could be subject to a fine of 16,000 dollars a day," he added. "The agreement requires that the social networking site set up a comprehensive protection system," also explained Jon Leibowitz. The proposed agreement is similar to that between the FTC and Google in March last at deployment Buzz social network.
A mea culpa from Mark Zuckerberg a few errors
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder, acknowledged that his company had made "many mistakes" in protecting the privacy of users. "In particular, a few big mistakes like Beacon, four years ago, and malfunctions occurred when we changed our terms of protection of privacy two years ago. These have overshadowed the many efforts we have made in this area, "he wrote in a blog. Beacon was designed to inform friends of a user on affiliated sites he had visited himself.