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Facebook's privacy settings: giving users more control while tearing down the wall
Between the Lines —
... Facebook is preparing to roll out new privacy settings - some of which includes tearing down the closed Facebook wall and opening the data to the general public. ( Statement , ...
Facebook’s Complete Privacy Presentation
Mashable! —
... Meanwhile, Facebook has also updated their blog with a lengthy overview of what users can expect to see over the next few weeks. ...
Facebook Rolling Out Simplified Privacy Settings
AppScout —
... "When we add new features to Facebook, we usually include a corresponding privacy setting," Facebook chief privacy officer Chris Kelly wrote in a blog post. "While this has helped give some people more individualized controls over particular features, [it] has made controlling privacy on Facebook too complicated." ...
Facebook Will Give Users More Control Over Who Sees What
Bits —
... — you can easily share all of your messages, photos and videos with everyone in your network. But it can also be a headache to assign people to different groups and slog through the Web site’s 40-some privacy control settings to parse who gets to see what. And if you want to post a status update reminding guests about a surprise party for your best friend — but prevent the birthday girl from seeing it — good luck figuring out how to do that. All of that is about to change, Facebook said Wednesday . The company will be overhauling its privacy controls to make it easier for ...
Facebook Simplifies Privacy But Wants You to Share More [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... the Palo Alto, Calif.-based social network is betting that if its users have more control over privacy, they’ll share more. To be sure, the current privacy settings are made up of many unnecessary layers. As part of the test, Facebook will be asking a small group of users to “revisit and reaffirm” their privacy setting using a so-called “transition tool.” As Chris Kelly, Facebook’s chief privacy officer, explains in a blog post: ...
Bits: Facebook Will Give Users More Control Over Who Sees What
NYT > Technology —
... — you can easily share all of your messages, photos and videos with everyone in your network. But it can also be a headache to assign people to different groups and slog through the Web site’s 40-some privacy control settings to parse who gets to see what. And if you want to post a status update reminding guests about a surprise party for your best friend — but prevent the birthday girl from seeing it — good luck figuring out how to do that. All of that is about to change, Facebook said Wednesday . The company will be overhauling its privacy controls to make it easier for ...
Facebook tweaks privacy settings: bye bye local networks
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... With all that in mind, then, the changes to Facebook privacy settings announced by the site today could be important: they are trying to fix the fact that the controls, as Chris Kelly (aforementioned chief privacy officer) said, not "as clean as one would like". ...
Facebook simplifies its privacy settings
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... share the update with “everyone,” with only their “friends” or with a “custom” group, in which they can pick which individuals get the information. Facebook members also will have the ability to decide whether Facebook can share their information and activity with advertisers, Kelly said. In addition, Facebook said, it would remove the site’s “regional networks,” which product manager Leah Pearlman said were confusing. Kelly has posted information on the changes to Facebook’s blog, and a slide ...
Facebook Simplifies Privacy Settings
TechWeb —
... settings to give users more control over the information they share. In a blog post on Wednesday, chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said Facebook is in the process of simplifying and standardizing its privacy settings. For Facebook users, this means revisiting previous privacy choices. Over the next few weeks, Facebook plans to make a Transition Tool available that will ask users to specify their desired level of information sharing. Previous privacy choices will carry over to the new privacy settings. Whether users will migrate toward more or less openness remains to be ...
Facebook simplifies privacy settings, calls them too complex
Macworld —
... social-networking site’s selling points. “It’s too complex at this point,” Kelly said. IDC analyst Caroline Dangson said that this is “absolutely true.” “The Facebook privacy settings aren’t set up in an easy way for people to discover and understand their implications,” she said. If people don’t feel they fully understand how to establish access settings to their profile content, they will not post and share as much as they would otherwise, Kelly said. Consequently, Facebook will consolidate into one page all of its privacy settings and make the options more uniform, focused ...
5Words for Thursday, July 2nd 2009
Technologizer —
... Nokia, Sony Ericsson unlocked phones.
Google News loses comments feature.
Facebook tweaks its privacy tools.
@microsoft has officially started tweeting.
Zer01’s unlimited voice/data service.
Another obscenely expensive Motorola phone.
Bankrupt Psystar still releasing machines.
Cheap thin laptops: cracking cases.
Apple ackowledges iPhone overheating issue?
Borders UK launches an e-book.
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Open data is the future of web discovery
VentureBeat —
... (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared on Facebook each month, with degree of access depending on how users transition their privacy settings using its upcoming privacy transition tool and whether ...
Why I'm Changing Facebook's Privacy Controls
Silicon Alley Insider —
... We're adding something that many of you have asked for — the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we'll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July. ...
How Facebook's New Privacy Changes Will Affect You
ReadWriteWeb —
... This update isn't exactly news - the company revealed their plans to remove regional networks back in July of this year. Zuckerberg's mentioning of this update seems to be more of a confirmation that indeed, this process is underway, than any sort of major announcement about a new direction for Facebook. ...
Facebook Nation, now pop. 350 million, getting new privacy controls
GMSV —
... that founder Mark Zuckerberg said Tuesday would be rolling out over the next few weeks. As outlined in July , Facebook is doing away with its “regional networks” for entities like schools, companies and geographic areas a set-up that was useful when the service was mostly used by students, but which has become unwieldy with growth. The changes, Zuckerberg said, “create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone. We’re adding something that many of you have asked for the ability ...
Facebook Fixes Privacy Five Years Too Late
Internet Evolution: —
... In this blog , he noted an important change to Facebook's privacy controls. According to Zuckerberg: We're adding something that many of you have asked for - the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we'll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. The "ability to control who sees each individual piece of content" was described in more detail in a blog in July : The Publisher Privacy Control, which we launched in a beta last week, allows you to ...
Facebook Ratchets Up Privacy
Forbes.com: Technology News —
... completely and create a simpler model for privacy control where you can set content to be available to only your friends, friends of your friends, or everyone. We're adding something that many of you have asked for--the ability to control who sees each individual piece of content you create or upload. In addition, we'll also be fulfilling a request made by many of you to make the privacy settings page simpler by combining some settings. If you want to read more about this, we began discussing this plan back in July. Since this update will remove regional networks and create ...
