Facebook to Make Privacy Changes

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Facebook to Make Privacy Changes

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Facebook collects information on its users for advertising purposes, data that is shared with third-party application developers, provoking privacy concerns.

Even if we still refuse to thank Canada for Alan Thicke and Shania Twain, we can cheer a recent push by the country’s privacy commissioner that will make social networking giant Facebook more transparent and give users more control over the data the site collects about them.

The BBC:

Facebook has agreed to make worldwide changes to its privacy policy as a result of negotiations with Canada’s privacy commissioner.

Last month the social network was found to breach Canadian law by holding on to users’ personal data indefinitely.

Facebook has now agreed to make changes to the way it handles this information and be more transparent about what data it collects and why.

It will also make it clear that users can deactivate or delete their account.

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By cognitis1, August 27, 2009 at 11:34 am Link to this comment

Facebook surreptitiously collects private data from
credulous and confident users, and it doesn’t hesitate
to injure its users. Other sites such as Yahoo
Messenger have been offering the same functions for a
much longer time than Facebook, and these other sites
don’t rip off their users. Having been warned only
idiots and willing victims would use Facebook.

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By ACLU of Northern California, August 27, 2009 at 10:08 am Link to this comment
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Want to understand what this all means and how to change your Facebook privacy settings now to better protect your personal information? Check out the ACLU of Northern California Facebook Privacy Quiz at http://apps.facebook.com/aclunc_privacy_quiz/

More info at our blog at http://www.aclunc.org/techblog.

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