Facebook’s privacy-policy fracas just won’t go away. If you market your e-business through social networking channels, do these privacy changes affect your business? InternetNews.com reports on the latest development.

A coalition of 10 privacy and consumer advocacy groups is calling on federal regulators to take action against Facebook and force the leading social network to restore some of the privacy controls that were recently changed in a massive site-wide overhaul.

The groups, led by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), filed a complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission, alleging that Facebook's changes violated the provisions concerning unfair and deceptive practices in federal consumer protection law.

"More than 100 million people in the United States subscribe to the Facebook service," EPIC Executive Director Marc Rotenberg said in a statement. "The company should not be allowed to turn down the privacy dial on so many American consumers."

EPIC's complaint argues that Facebook's changes have broadened the scope of information treated as publicly available to include profile photos, lists of friends and gender. Publicly available information can be seen by anyone on the Web—not just Facebook users.

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