Canada Slaps Facebook Upside The Head and WINS!

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Stand up and cheer all you social site users. Canada, that quiet, polite, and these days, HOT country north of the border of the most powerful country in the world has come into it's own power. Today it was announced that Canada's Privacy Commissioner has succeeded in slapping Facebook upside the head and forced it to change it's privacy policies with such affect that other major social networks on the world wide web will soon be following suit if they don't want to lose over 12 million Canadian users. The full story can be found here: http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090827/facebook_fix_090827/20090827/?hub=TorontoNewHome (You may have to copy and paste this into your browser). So stand up and cheer all you Canadian women. Because it was a woman who spearheaded these changes to protect the personal privacy and information of it's citizens and in so doing, EVERYONE on the world wide net who uses this site and many others. Thanks to Jennifer Stoddart, no longer will personal profile information automatically be shared with third parties when users activate applications on FB for games, quizzes, etc. Information that is now used by these third parties without users knowledge or consent. From now on, if a user delete's their account, ALL information will be gone from the algorithms and not accessible anymore by the spyware of hackers, or third party sites. It will be as if you were never there. These are important changes and will have a huge impact on not only Facebook, but MySpace, and other globally popular 'social' sites on the web. Even Mylot will have to make these changes if they want to stay active globally. And Canada is not stopping there. Jennifer Stoddart has made it clear that the security of the net in terms of the protection of users personal information and privacy needs to be legislated and policed. If she can slap FaceBook upside the head and win................then look out world wide web, your days of playing havoc with my name, my address, my phone number, my IP address, my credit card, or whatever else I must needs put out there, are going to be over before you know it. NEVER underestimate the power of a woman..........especially a Canadian woman! LOL So what do you think of Canada now eh? ROFL