Here's What the New Facebook Privacy Settings Will Look Like. Facebook announced revamped privacy and sharing settings for all users Wednesday morning. The changes will be rolled out from now through the end of the year, but the company shared a sneak peek of the new menu options. Your Facebook privacy settings — which previously lived in several different menus — will be organized under one roof, called Privacy Shortcuts: A refreshed Activity Log will show a great deal more information about where your personal data, photos and other information spreads across the Facebook social graph: A new Request Removal Tool will help you ask whoever uploaded those embarrassing photos of you to delete them: In-context notices will alert you if content you choose to hide from your Facebook Timeline might still appear in news feeds, searches and elsewhere.
Facebook apps will now have to make two separate requests to access your personal info and post to your account: Your ability to remove yourself from Facebook search is, however, going away. More Than Privacy Controls, Facebook Needs Our Trust To Keep Growing. If you don’t trust Facebook, you might keep an account, but you won’t share as much. So Facebook is aiming to educate users about privacy in the hopes that they’ll keep doubling the amount they share each year and uphold Zuckerberg’s Law. Facebook privacy can’t just be “good enough.” It needs us confident in our control, because as it runs low on people to sign up, attracting more data is the main way it will grow.
At this point, having a Facebook account is basically a requirement for staying in touch with friends and being on the Internet. Sure you could delete your account, but people who would have messaged, wall posted, or invited you to events won’t always go the extra mile to contact you some other way. So if you lose trust in Facebook, what you actually do is share less. You might keep your profile biography incomplete, preventing Facebook from targeting you with ads based on your hometown, current city, workplace, or relationship status.
Email Addresses Briefly Made Public on Facebook. 5 Design Tricks Facebook Uses To Affect Your Privacy Decisions. Editor’s note: Avi Charkham is Head of Product & Design @ lool ventures, an early stage, value-add venture capital firm based in Israel and the incubators of MyPermissions personal cloud security service.
Do you know how many apps access your personal information on Facebook? Check your Facebook apps permissions and get ready for a surprise. In fact, Facebook keeps “improving” their design so that more of us will add apps on Facebook without realizing we’re granting those apps (and their creators) access to our personal information. After all, this access to our information and identity is the currency Facebook is trading in and what is driving its stock up or down. It should be no surprise that in the new App Center Facebook made another leap forward in their efforts to get you to expose your personal info without realizing you’re doing so. #1: The Single Button Trick In the old design Facebook used two buttons – “Allow” and “Don’t Allow” – which automatically led you to make a decision.