Facebook New Privacy Policies for its Users to Control over Personal Data

Facebook, the largest online social network in the world has agreed to constrict its privacy policies. The Facebook new privacy policies are to control the personal information shared by its users to their third party applications software such as games and quizzes. Users used to share the information to the third party application but the same has not been retained when the user deactivates his account from the Facebook.

Currently the people who are using the third party application software have to provide all their personal information. But when the changes comes to implemented by the Facebook new privacy policies, then the application software has to specify the category of the data which is required by the software. For example, if the application is requesting for the geographical location, so the users has to give the explicit permission to proceed further. The privacy standards of the facebook applications such as accessing the friend’s information would be subject to the privacy confidentiality and application settings.

The Facebook new privacy policies will have implications for software developers who have built worthable businesses by creating the applications for the Facebook users. They must update their software to comply with, which enhance the privacy confidentiality for the Facebook users. the changes of the new privacy standards. The implementation of the new privacy standards will take a year to get implement. The company has struggled to communicate the Facebook new privacy policies to its speedily growing account holders.

The company has stated that those users who want to quit the service can deactivate their account. In this case, the information about the user such as photos, personal detail and others all are retained and erased in a short space of time. The process of deleting the account and erasing the data in a short period of time will helps to protect the user information from the third party application. In addition, it also said that the changes in the policies will bring the new privacy standards for the social networking industry. Finally, Facebook encourage its users to review their privacy settings and improves to control over the personal data