Facebook takes additional action that will make users more able to control their privacy

By Irene Egan, vice president and head of privacy and policy, and Ashley Berger, vice president and deputy general manager of Facebook

Last week we demonstrated the amount of work we need to do to strengthen our policies and to help users understand how Facebook works and what options they have for their data. We heard loud and clear that it's hard to find privacy settings and other tools and that we need to do more to keep users informed, So, in addition to Mark's comments last week, "cracking down on the Facebook platform abusers" that has enhanced our policies and made it easier for users to restrict the ability of devices to access their data, in the coming weeks we will take additional action from Which makes users more capable of controlling their privacy. Most of these updates have been in progress for some time, but events over the past few days have highlighted their importance.


Make it easy to find settings and data tools
We have redesigned our list of settings available on mobile devices completely from start to finish to make it easier to find things. Instead of deploying the settings on 20 different screens, it is now possible to access them from one place, and we have also removed the previous settings so the nature of the data That can be shared with devices and can not be shared.

A list of new privacy shortcuts
As well as simplifying our list of settings, users let us know that we can easily find privacy, security and advertising information. New Privacy Shortcuts are a list where you can control your data with just a few clicks, with fewer explanations of how our controls work, and the experience is now visible, visible and easy to find. And you can by this list:

• Make your account more secure: You can add more protection levels to your account, such as a two-step verification process. If you've turned on this feature and tried to access your account from a device we did not recognize, we'll ask you to confirm that you're the one who did.
• Control your personal information: You can review and verify what you've shared, including posts you've shared or interacted with, the friendship requests you've sent, and the things you've searched for with Facebook.
• Control the ads you see: Manage the information we use to show your ads, along with preferred explanations of how your data works and what options you have.
• Manage people who view your publications and your profile information: Everything you publish on Facebook is yours so you can take care of things like people who view your publications and the information you choose to include in your personal health.

Custom tools to find, download and delete your Facebook data

It is one solution to enable you to have a policy that explains the data we collect and use, but it is more useful for users to see and manage their personal information. Some users want to delete things they have shared in the past, while others are curious about the information that Included in Facebook.

We use the "access to your information" feature as a secure way for users to access and manage their information such as publications, interactions, comments, and things they search for, and you can access this feature to delete anything from your timeline or profile that you no longer want on Facebook.

It's easy to download the data you've shared on Facebook. It's your data, and you can now download a secure version of it and even transfer it to another service. This includes photos you've downloaded and the contacts you've added to your account, along with the publications on your line Time and more.

Future Road

It is also your responsibility to inform us about the collection and use of your data in a language that is easy to understand and in the coming weeks, we will give people suggestions on updates to our Facebook Terms of Service, including our obligations to users.

We will also update our data policy so that we can better determine what data we can collect and how to use it. These updates revolve around transparency, not about obtaining new rights to collect, use or share data.