Facebook has just been charged with a series of privacy violations by a Canadian public policy group.

Perhaps it was only a matter of time before this happened, especially after the latest BBC reportage indicated how easily a rogue program could be created to harvest personal information from the site.

Canadian officials have called for a full review of social networking rules.  In terms of web development, this appears to be an essential next step for one ofthe fastest-growing areas of our industry. 

Source: ComputerWorld