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FACEBOOK HAS LAUNCHED a new educational campaign to help people better understand how to manage their own data.
The social media giant has published its privacy principles for the first time and is rolling out educational videos into the News Feed to help users control who has access to their information.
Users will be shown how to make sure they share only what they want with certain people, how to delete old posts, how to control what information Facebook uses to show you ads, and what it means to delete your account.
Facebook has said that it has never before published its principles online.
The announcement was made in anticipation of the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation, which comes into effect on 25 May. It will replace the existing data protection framework in the EU.
The regulation will emphasise transparency, security and accountability by data controllers and processors, while also standardising and strengthening the rights of European citizens to data privacy.
Facebook privacy settings are customisable, and every user has the power to decide who sees certain posts and how discoverable their profile is. However, it has long been the case that not all users are fully aware of these settings.
“We recognise that people use Facebook to connect, but not everyone wants to share everything with everyone – including with us. It’s important that you have choices when it comes to how your data is used,” Facebook’s chief privacy officer Erin Egan said.
Facebook’s privacy principles include helping users understand how their data is used, how the company keeps data secure, how users can delete information, improving new controls and being accountable to regulators.
“We put products through rigorous data security testing. We also meet with regulators, legislators and privacy experts around the world to get input on our data practices and policies,” Egan said.
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I have top privacy settings…no Facebook
@NotMaryLoonyMcDonald: “Terms and Conditions May Apply” movie from 2013. Absolute must see for everybody concern about online privacy.
@cortisola: Don’t forget Facebook wants your likes and has currently 62 other businesses as well as the book of faces https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook
@Nick Allen: Which part was fiction? Zuckerberg asking to not be filmed by movie people ?
@Simon O Flaherty: I was aware they diversificate their interests. Nothing unusual if you earn billions of $. But you can’t expect all little men to follow it, and our governments are useless in matter of care about our digital safety.
Don’t worry thank God for US Homeland Security they will monitor Facebook and protect us from the Russians…..
@John003: Anyone who thinks any information, photos, private messages, instant messages, email, date of birth, pps number, credit card information or anything else is safe is seriously misled. Edward Snowdon and Wiki Leaks has only confirmed this. Even SMS messages can be intercepted and read with a free legal 5euro tool called an Imsi catcher which our Garda use every day.
Facebook is just adverts and spam posts these days.
things were much simpler in the 90S people went around with Polaroid cameras taking pictures of their dinner &just scribbled a few lines on it like “look what I’m eating for me dinner ” &shoved it through your friends letterbox. .it was great for fitness too especially when you had a few miles to walk to your friend’s gaff &then you just wrote a note saying you’d walked five miles with a small map of your route
And how will this determine “fake” accounts such as those that infected the U.S election?
@gowfc@yahoo.com W: Who knows.
@gowfc@yahoo.com W: because they normally use it themselves in other countries. Trump was elected because the former middle-class are getting poorer. Little or nothing to Do with the Russians.
Bit late
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