The Liberal Party has been accused of conducting a "massive data harvesting operation" which collects highly personal information about people and their friends using Facebook.

A website created by the Liberal Party, thechoice.liberal.org.au, asks users to log-in with their Facebook account to "see Australia's two possible futures".

Furore: The frontpage of the website.

Once users proceed to see the "futures", they are then told that the Liberal Party would like to access (with permission) their Facebook profile, which includes information such as the user's name, profile picture, age range, gender, language, email address and location. They are also told the Liberal Party will gain access to a list of the user's friends, their friends' likes and their friends' location.

The user's friends are not asked whether this information should be divulged to the Liberal Party.