Privacy and Facebook have been both enemies and friends. Just recently the company had to back down on its changes to terms and conditions. But now it’s offering a new modification to its privacy tools which it claims will not only give users more control, but also simplify privacy management.
In a blog posting, chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said:
“We want to give people the power to limit who should receive any particular piece of information they want to share. The Publisher Privacy Control, which we launched in a beta last week, allows you to decide who can see the content you publish on a per-post basis. For example, you may want to make some posts available to everyone, while restricting others to your friends and family. You should be able to make that decision every time you share something on Facebook, and soon you'll be able to do this.”
The company is phasing out its old regional networks, which it says have become obsolete and the site has gone more global. It’s also planning on simplifying privacy settings “and putting them all on the same page. We'll also standardize the options we provide for each setting so the choices are always the same. Lastly, we'll remove overlapping settings to reduce confusion and combine profile fields that are similar, so you only have to make one decision.”
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