{"id":5510,"date":"2012-02-01T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2012-02-01T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-01T14:54:06","slug":"human-rights-concerns-linger-as-facebook-ipo-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5510","title":{"rendered":"Human Rights Concerns Linger as Facebook IPO Approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Human Rights Concerns Linger as Facebook IPO Approaches<\/strong><br \/>\n31 January 31, 2012 &#8211; Human Rights First<\/p>\n<p>Washington, DC \u2013 As Facebook prepares to launch the process for establishing its much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) this week, Human Rights First is urging the company to make clear how it will address lingering human rights concerns to potential investors. The group is also calling on Congress to close a major loophole that permits insider trading by members of Congress \u2013 a topic that will come to the forefront as Facebook\u2019s IPO launches.<\/p>\n<p>Among the human rights concerns potential investors should consider are unanswered questions about how Facebook will approach user privacy in countries where the internet is a tool of repression rather than expression.  According to Human Rights First, Facebook should explain how it would respond to government requests for user information or for censorship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook is the industry leader in social networking.  Their privacy and human rights policies will become the standard for all services. Likewise, their failure to adequately anticipate and address human rights concerns will have grave consequences,\u201d said Human Rights First\u2019s Meg Roggensack. \u201cFacebook has a responsibility to future investors to answer these questions before they launch their IPO this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Facebook does not explicitly lay out its strategy to protect freedom of expression and other human rights.  In addition, its privacy policy varies from country to country, making it difficult for users to understand which of their personal information is private.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently reached a settlement that requires Facebook to  revise its privacy policies and subject them to periodic independent review.  The settlement agreement \u2013 which explicitly covers user generated registration and data posts \u2013 doesn\u2019t clearly indicate how Facebook would handle information gathered about its users while on the site. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanrightsfirst.org\/2012\/01\/31\/human-rights-concerns-linger-as-facebook-ipo-approaches\/\" target=\"_blank\"> &#8230;more<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crookedbough.com%2F%3Fp%3D5510&amp;text=Human+Rights+Concerns+Linger+as+Facebook+IPO+Approaches&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human Rights Concerns Linger as Facebook IPO Approaches 31 January 31, 2012 &#8211; Human Rights First Washington, DC \u2013 As Facebook prepares to launch the process for establishing its much-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) this week, Human Rights First is urging the company to make clear how it will address lingering human rights concerns to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/?p=5510#more-'\" class=\"more-link\">more \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[2431],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5510"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5511,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5510\/revisions\/5511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crookedbough.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}