Facebook Plans To Improve Privacy

as mentioned in Facebook Plans To Improve PrivacyARI SHAPIRO, HOST:Mark Zuckerberg built Facebook around the idea of connecting the world, and now he says he wants Facebook to be more private and a more secure experience. The Facebook model has been built off of selling advertisers access to information about Facebook users. Can Facebook really be trusted to take these steps in good faith? And so I don't think Facebook is going to be alone here, and there's really a level of convenience that comes with Facebook products. And I think that if you're a user, the convenience of using a Facebook product may outweigh your concerns around whether or not, you know, Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook truly care about your privacy.

Facebook Promises More Enhanced Privacy And Other Features

Facebook Promises More Enhanced Privacy And Other FeaturesSTEVE INSKEEP, HOST:Just as Facebook faces pressure to accept government regulation, Mark Zuckerberg says he wants to change. Zuckerberg says he now favors plans for encryption and self-destruct features on Facebook apps like Messenger. What that means is Mark Zuckerberg wants you to be able, if you're on WhatsApp, to message your friend on Facebook through your WhatsApp service. It has business implications, legal implications. But the other question here about keeping all of that data private is a question legally.

Former Facebook Employees Say The Company's Recent Prioritization Of Privacy Is All About Optics

As it stated in Last May, Facebook promised to create a "Clear History" function it said would give users more control over their data. But former employees and critics say the company's true ethos has often been in opposition to this. Two highlighted Zuckerberg's desire to rush out a Clear History announcement ahead of F8. Facebook Facebook altered a global ad campaign to include the phrase "Data misuse is not your friend" last spring following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Still, nine months after its initial announcement, Clear History is nowhere to be found.

As Facebook Raised a Privacy Wall, It Carved an Opening for Tech Giants

For years, Facebook gave some of the world's largest technology companies more intrusive access to users' personal data than it has disclosed, effectively exempting those business partners from its usual privacy rules, according to internal records and interviews. The special arrangements are detailed in hundreds of pages of Facebook documents obtained by The New York Times. Facebook users connected with friends across different devices and websites. But Facebook also assumed extraordinary power over the personal information of its 2.2 billion users — control it has wielded with little transparency or outside oversight. Facebook allowed Microsoft's Bing search engine to see the names of virtually all Facebook users' friends without consent, the records show, and gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users' private messages.

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