Facebook Revamps Privacy Tools as Tighter EU Rules Draw Near
Earlier this week, Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg agreed to testify before Congress over the scandal, which allegedly saw the data of 50 million users improperly harvested by CA to target United States and British voters ahead of the presidential election and European referendum. Users may now add more layers of protection to their account, like the two-factor authentication; control personal information by reviewing what is shared; control the ads that appear and set ad preferences, and manage who sees a user's posts and profile information.
Today Facebook announced it will be making it easier to find the tools to secure your account and is adding a way to delete your data. The company says the updates have been in the works for "some time. but that the events of the past several days underscore their importance". He also addressed the longstanding internet theory that Facebook spies on its users to shape their advertising.
Facebook has said it will no longer offer an advertising option that exploits personal data provided by third-party aggregators.
Facebook's chief privacy officer acknowledged the damage which the Cambridge Analytica revelations had caused her company, at the start of her blog.
Facebook has just announced a brand new settings menu on mobile devices.
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If you are surprised by the amount of data Facebook collects on you (you can check it through the above archive), you can delete Facebook data from Activity Log that shows every single activity since the day you signed up to sell your data. That data, generated over years of games and personality quizzes that had access to private information, is largely still stored outside of Facebook's grasp by the private individuals and companies that built those applications.
"We believe this step, winding down over the next six months, will help improve people's privacy on Facebook", Graham Mudd, Facebook product marketing director, said in a statement about the change in policy on data brokers on Wednesday.
Kelso says you may be sharing more than you realize.
As part of the update, Facebook has released a new feature called Access Your Information, a new "secure way" for users to access and delete their posts, reactions, comments, and searches from their timeline or profile. Facebook last week also pledged to investigate and audit all apps that were allowed to get information on users and their friends before the company changed its policies in 2014. But, in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, it's pushed pause on that effort.
Additionally, they'll be updating the overall terms of service, but they promise the changes will be "to better spell out what data we collect and how we use it. not about gaining new rights to collect, use, or share data".
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