"We'll also update our data policy to better spell out what data we collect and how we use it. "In the coming weeks, we'll be proposing updates to Facebook's terms of service that include our commitments to people," the post's authors wrote. There are still more changes yet to be announced. The platform's general settings menu will also be streamlined. It also explained a new section called Access Your Information, a more user-friendly interface for finding, downloading and deleting personal Facebook data. On March 28, Facebook published a blog post titled, " It's Time to Make Our Privacy Tools Easier to Find," in which it laid out plans for a new Privacy Shortcuts menu that will allow users to add two-factor authentication, delete records of their past activity, control the ads they see and more. On the other hand, Facebook is ramping up efforts to clarify privacy controls and help users find exactly what information Facebook knows about them. These reports followed news that Zuckerberg would send deputies to speak with British lawmakers on behalf of Facebook regarding privacy issues.Īlso on March 27, a group of Facebook users filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging that the social media giant's Messenger app collected information about their phone calls and text messages.Ī range of prominent individuals and brands have hopped on the #DeleteFacebook train since the Cambridge Analytica news broke a week and a half ago, from Elon Musk to WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton to actor Will Ferrell to Playboy magazine.Īmid this controversy, Facebook is reportedly putting the brakes on a smart home speaker it's been developing - such devices that recorded users' speech in their homes and send it to cloud servers for processing are often suspect of spying and data misuse. Zuckerberg answered that he would be open to the possibility, and on March 27, CNN and other outlets reported that he is preparing to do so as a result of mounting pressures. Last week, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg fielded questions from news outlets about whether he would testify before Congress about Facebook's collection and distribution of user data. Related: 20 Revelations From Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Apology Tour
Despite Facebook's best efforts, some users worry, the company might not be able to secure information they share on the platform or keep it anonymous. Today, despite the fact that Facebook has promised further crackdowns, many still fear that Facebook and all of the apps connected to it know too much about them. This problem resulted from old, less strict rules about data collection by developers that Facebook updated in 2014, but Facebook shared the data with Kogan before that.
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