Facebook on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its privacy controls intended to make them simpler. This follows a barrage of criticism and weeks of pressure from various organizations and groups regarding recent changes the social networking site made to its privacy settings. “The number one thing we’ve heard is that there just needs to be a simpler way to control your information,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. “Today we’re starting to roll out some changes that will make all of these controls a lot simpler.”
No doubt Facebook will continue to collect information about users for their advertisers. This should surprise nobody. Unless users wants to start paying for what they use. I think they will have to accept some information not being private. But to me the fact that it has been so hard to opt out of any sharing.That is the most disturbing part of Facebook. Their privacy disclosures are much to difficult to read and understand. Will this be changed? I doubt it.
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Facebook's New, New Privacy Settings: Same Old?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 26, 2010 01:26 PMFacebook on Wednesday announced an overhaul of its privacy controls intended to make them simpler. This follows a barrage of criticism and weeks of pressure from various organizations and groups regarding recent changes the social networking site made to its privacy settings. “The number one thing we’ve heard is that there just needs to be a simpler way to control your information,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said. “Today we’re starting to roll out some changes that will make all of these controls a lot simpler.”