Senators to Facebook: Quit Sharing Users' Info

Hugh Pickens writes: "USA Today reports that Senators Al Franken (D-Minn.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), have joined New York Senator Chuck Schumer in asking the Federal Trade Commission to take a look at Facebook's controversial new information sharing policies, arguing that the massively popular social network overstepped its bounds when it began sharing user data with other websites. "We've asked the FTC to promulgate some rules," says Schumer. "You know a violation when you see one and this is one of those." Schumer said he learned about the new rules from his daughter, who is in law school but added that he's noticed no difference on his own Facebook page, which, he assured reporters, "is very boring." "I can attest to that," deadpanned Franken, who made his living as a comedian before entering the Senate and whose facebook page outnumbers Schumer's in followers ten to one."