Facebook is making its privacy settings easier to find

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From CNN:

Facebook is rolling out a series of changes to give people better control of their privacy settings and data.

The company’s redesigned security settings let people control what personal information the social network and third-party apps keeps. Facebook used to display security tools and settings across 20 different tabs.

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Facebook responded to the global outcry after an explosive report that a third-party personality quiz harvested 50 million Facebook profiles. Data company Cambridge Analytica used that information to sway the 2016 presidential election.

The company is also adding two more tools, including a Privacy Shortcuts menu, where people can add two-factor authentication and control the ads they’re served. Facebook’s new “Access Your Information” button allows people to delete anything from their timelines or profiles that they no longer want on Facebook, the company says.

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2 thoughts on “Facebook is making its privacy settings easier to find”

  1. I do like how they keep harping on ‘settings’, ignoring the minor issue that those settings do nothing to what data they will sell. I’d be more hopeful if those ‘settings’ included a ‘do not sell my data to others’ option – but then fb would go out of business (hmm, a good thing imnsho.)

  2. The settings have never been that difficult to find. The problem was they were an exercise in futility.

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