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Facebook Users Will In Fact Vote On If They’ll Lose The Ability To Vote, Other Privacy Changes Denounced By EPIC

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http://techcrunch.com – Some 17,800 Facebook users have commented on proposed changes to Facebook’s governing documents, enough to trigger a vote on whether they’ll go into effect. Today the Electronic Privacy Information Center asked Mark Zuckerberg to withdraw the proposal to combine user data from Facebook and Instagram and eliminate the same right to vote that users will assert in a seven-day period starting soon. Facebook gave users one week to review the proposal to change its Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy, and that period ends tomorrow morning around 10am PST. Since m (IT news)

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