Facebook announces more privacy control updates

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Facebook is counting the cost of losing users’ and investors’ trust, with tens of billions of dollars wiped off the company’s value since news of the scandal broke.In addition to the announcement by Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg that the company will crack down on abuse of the platform, strengthen its policies and make it easier to revoke apps’ ability to use personal data, the company has announced that it is taking steps to put users more in control of their privacy.

Facebook claims most of the updates have been “in the works for some time”, adding: “Events of the past several days underscore their importance. “According to Facebook, the settings menu on mobile devices has been redesigned to make data settings and tools easier to find, and so instead of having settings spread across nearly 20 different screens, they are now accessible from one place.

Facebook also claims to have cleaned up outdated settings, so it is clear what information can and cannot be shared with apps, and there is a new privacy shortcuts menu for controlling personal data.

The new privacyc updates are:

1. Make accounts more secure by adding two-factor authentication.
2. Control personal information by being able to review and delete what has been shared.
3. Manage and control the information Facebook uses to determine what ads shown to user
4. Manage who sees posts and profile information.
5. Find, download and delete Facebook data using the Access Your Information option.

Facebook has announced in the wake of the Cambridge Analytical data misuse scandal include improvements to its bug bounty program that will incentivize and reward security researchers for hunting down third-party Facebook apps that misuse user data.

“Facebook is the first major company that is asking for researchers to identify data privacy issues,” he said. “With the GDPR coming into force in a couple of months, data privacy is now high on many organizations’ agendas.” According to Kolochenko, Facebook has shown the impact of a data privacy breach, and this may spur other organizations to seek security researchers’ help to avoid the severe sanctions for privacy violations. “Bounty payments for privacy issues is a very good idea as companies can leverage the crowd,” he said.

Since news of the data exploitation scandal emerged, Facebook has also paused all third-party app reviews on the platform, pending changes to app permissions to prevent any type of future user data misuse. The company has announced that any app that requests access to a user’s Facebook friends list will undergo a manual review, during which Facebook engineers will decide whether the app is entitled to request this permission from the user. Facebook has also undertaken to investigate all apps that had access to large amounts of information before it changed its platform in 2014 to reduce data access, conduct a full audit of any app with suspicious activity, and ban developers from the Facebook platform if any of their apps misuse data.

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