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On Wednesday, December 9th Facebook announced a new privacy transition tool that it will require all of its members to use to change their privacy settings. For Facebook users who have never thought about their privacy this is an excellent opportunity to better understand who can access what information, and to change your settings to better reflect your own privacy preferences. However, a user who simply accepts the new transition tool’s suggestions may end up disclosing far more information than a user who signed up for Facebook in the week prior to the tool’s implementation. For example, a user's relationship status (single, dating, engaged, married, etc) and the gender of partner they are interested in now appear to default to an “Everyone” setting, meaning that all users on Facebook have access to them and they may potentially be available to the internet at large.
What Does Facebook's Privacy Transition Mean for You? | ACLUNC d
Five months after it first announced coming privacy changes this past summer, Facebook is finally rolling out a new set of revamped privacy settings for its 350 million users. The social networking site has rightly been criticized for its confusing privacy settings, most notably in a must-read report by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner issued in July and most recently by a Norwegian consumer protection agency . We're glad to see Facebook is attempting to respond to those privacy criticisms with these changes, which are going live this evening.
Facebook's New Privacy Changes: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
