After experiencing pressure from various parties, eventually Facebook privacy options intended to simplify the user. In this interview with Kojo Nnamdi Show, public radio, Facebook’s chief of Public Policy, Tim Sparapani, said that his company was working on simplification of privacy options, such as what is demanded by many users so far.
“We heard from users that privacy option that we make today are too complex. I think we’ll pass them,” said Sparapani as quoted from the Wired site. “We will provide the option for users who want the privacy. I think we’ll be able to see it in the next few weeks,” said Sparapani.
Lately, Facebook was accused of restricting their users to have full control over their personal data in the most popular social networking site that. Facebook privacy statement grown increasingly complicated. In fact, now Facebook has a privacy statement that is longer than the United States Constitution. To truly be able to control the privacy of Facebook users have to perform 50 times with 170 privacy setting options offered.
To adjust the image alone, each with a photo album in Facebook should be arranged one by one whether to be published to everyone, only to friends, or to certain people only. Imagine if someone has hundreds of photos or dozens of album that should be checked one by one. Facebook’s privacy policy changes introduced since the end of December 2009 it made a lot of users do not really understand or care about their privacy.
Recent research from Consumer Reports said, 23 percent of Facebook users do not know the Facebook privacy controls offered, or claimed to not want used. but, when it also changed the Facebook privacy settings previously set by default as’ private ‘, becomes the default as’ public ‘. Therefore, a new Facebook user profile, will automatically be seen by everyone. Even with the new Open Graph API, Facebook distribute Facebook user information to third-party service sites such as Yelp, Microsoft Docs.com, and Pandora.
As quoted by The New York Times, analysts suspect Facebook is looking for a gap to seek profits from the advertisers. Therefore, more information from users that are displayed on their Facebook, Facebook will be more able to avoid a first ads that are relevant to the content information.
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