State of Mich. finalizing policy on social media

Associated Press LANSING, Mich. — The state plans to consider what its employees and agencies post on social media websites as matters of public record and subject to Freedom of Information Act requests. Michigan is working to finalize a policy that is expected to be completed in August, Kurt Weiss, a spokesman for the state’s [...]

FTC may enter latest Facebook privacy debacle

by  Caroline McCarthy Privacy advocates opposed to new privacy regulations at Facebook are attempting to get the attention of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, according to a complaint filed Thursday on behalf of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and several allied groups. “These changes violate user expectations, diminish user privacy, and contradict Facebook’s own representations,” [...]