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It has occurred once again that Facebook has went into a privacy controversy and this time it is into controversy due to launch of the Open Graph API or named to be as “instant personalization” which share a profile’s information third party sites like Yelp and Pandora.

On Sunday, Senator Charles Schumer of New York wrote a letter to the FTC, pleading them to create privacy guidelines for Facebook and other social networking sites. The heart of the issue, in Schumer’s eyes, is that Facebook’s new features put the onus on users to opt-out, as opposed to asking them if they want to opt-in. However, Facebook has different opinion over this issue as it told to a local ABC News affiliate that “none of these changes removed or reduced people’s control over their information.” That is very true, though we wrote in our initial review of the privacy implications of the Open Graph API, information is at times more viewable and available in more places than it was before.

Ultimately, users will soon have the impact of Facebook settings as they browse the Web and check out what is there for them and what is there is not for them. It has been seen recently that Facerbook has either has made changes or has completely backed down from certain changes, as users agree that social networks has carried away the privacy bandwagon too far.

And this time it too appears that we would hardly see any changes made to Facebook. Facebook has already created opt-out features, that requires its partners to make it easy to opt-out as well and has asserted its position as a number of times since its roll out. The Open Graph API is also a major policy of Facebook to dominate the internet.