Facebook adds new privacy features
Facebook has lately been under allot of scrutiny about their privacy settings since the release of their new Open Graph API and social plugins, but now the company has finally launched brand new privacy features to address the issues.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook, said that the company will not be removing all the privacy settings that users currently have available to them. Instead Facebook will be adding a one simple click solution to change permissions to friends-only, friends-of-friends, or everyone. These changes will apply to all your data even that previously published.
In addition Facebook will also be adding a simpler way for you to determine how users can find you and what people not your friends are able to see about you. Users will also now have the ability to turn off the Facebook platform, disabling any applications from getting hold of your data, and users will also have a way to opt-out of sharing the pages and stuff they like with their friends.
Facebook is expected to roll out the new changes in the next few weeks and will notify users with a message on their homepage about the new privacy features.
The way how I see it is that there was always great privacy features for Facebook where users had allot of control over who can see their data and even what data may and may not be shared with applications, it is just a matter of users don’t know about it or what it is for. When last did you sharpen up your Facebook privacy settings?
