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UPDATED: MoveOn to Facebook: Respect My Privacy

By Eliza Krigman
July 30, 2010 | 11:51 AM

Progressive grassroots political organization MoveOn.org sent out an e-mail Thursday evening admonishing Facebook for sharing personal information without first asking users for opt-in permission.

The note asked supporters to sign a petition saying that Facebook "should not make information about me or my friends public without my explicit permission."

The petition comes a day after Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his first official visit to Washington. Zuckerberg met with members of the Senate Republican High-Tech Task Force, including task force Chairman Orrin Hatch, R-Utah.

UPDATE: Facebook has spent much of the summer defending concerns about its privacy policies from lawmakers, civil rights groups, users and privacy groups.

MoveOn's discontent with Facebook, which came in the wake of a single researcher aggregating publicly available data from 171 million Facebook accounts, is misplaced, Facebook maintains. "This information already exists in Google, Bing, other search engines, as well as on Facebook," said Andrew Noyes, company spokesman. "No private data is available or has been compromised."

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