Facebook overhauls privacy settings amid data breach outcry
The results will range from the expected - photos and videos you've posted - to the unexpected as users on the Android platform also have their phone and text message records listed.
The section will also enable users to access secure copies of their Facebook history more quickly, the company said.
Facebook has produced multiple iterations to its privacy settings pages over the years, often in response to criticism that the system is too complicated for most people to understand what they are and aren't sharing. You will also be able to download the data you've shared and move it to another service if you want. Facebook released these changes after coming under intense public and regulatory pressure for unauthorized disclosures of private information to a third-party firm called Cambridge Analytica that allegedly used it to profile voters for the Trump campaign in 2016. The ad preferences lets you control what ads you see and what information Facebook uses to choose the ads you see.
The company said the updates have been in the works for "some time but the events of the past several days underscore their importance".
Reportedly, Playboy Enterprises the parent company in a statement said, "The recent news about Facebook's alleged mismanagement of users' data has solidified our decision to suspend our activity on the platform at this time". For example, Facebook will now remove developers' access to user data after their apps go unused for three months.
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The changes include a new "Privacy Shortcuts" menu and tools that will allow users to more easily find, manage and delete their personal data.
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Additionally, Facebook said that developers that build applications for other businesses, that is, the Cambridge Analyticas of the world, "will need to comply with rigorous policies and terms", which it promised to publish in the coming weeks. The firm is now making it clear as well, exactly what details are shared with non-Facebook apps.
"It's also our responsibility to tell you how we collect and use your data in language that's detailed, but also easy to understand", Facebook concluded in the blog post.
Yesterday, it was confirmed by Facebook that Mark Zuckerberg would not appear before a British parliamentary committee investigating fake news.
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