August 29th, 2009
Facebook privacy has taken a step forward. Last week I wrote about Facebook Safety Tips, as privacy is becoming a key factor in the social networking world. Yesterday, Facebook announced that they would tighten up privacy in response to a set of recommendations made by the Canadian government (Facebook Privacy Announcement).
Here is the gist of the Facebook Privacy Changes that will be implemented in the next 12 months:
- Facebook will simplify their privacy settings, consolidating them into a single interface to make it easier to access and modify. They are going to make protecting your private data more user-friendly.
- Facebook will prompt users to review their privacy settings, rather than letting them sit, by default, unprotected (as is the case now)
- Third-party Facebook applications or Facebook plug-ins (there are tens of thousands of them) will be required to comply with a new set of permissions, specifying the types of information they want to access from Facebook’s customer database.
