MARC ROTENBERG: "I don’t think it’s going to satisfy everybody. I think there are certainly a large number of Facebook users who have decided they really can’t trust Facebook anymore."
A website called Quitfacebook Day has been urging people to leave this Monday.
Facebook is based in Palo Alto, California. The privately held company does not have to report earnings. But its revenue last year has been estimated at five hundred to six hundred fifty million dollars. This was mainly from selling ads aimed at users based on what they post on Facebook.
Facebook is not alone in being criticized over privacy. Google, the world leader in Web search, is in trouble for collecting information from unsecured wireless networks. This was done as specially equipped vehicles took pictures for the Google mapping feature called Street View. Google said it never meant to collect people's private information, like e-mails and passwords.
But officials in Hamburg, Germany, have launched a criminal investigation. And last week two American congressmen asked the Federal Trade Commission to see if Google broke any laws in the United States.
And that's the VOA Special English Economics Report. What do you think about privacy online? You can post comments at voaspecialenglish.com or on our Facebook page at VOA Learning English. I'm Mario Ritter.
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