If your Facebook page starts to look different or Platform begins to ask whether you are okay with Your data shared in the coming weeks or months, you will have Europe to thank for that: the company began rolling out Facebook’s privacy changes to comply with new data protection measures in the European Union.
Late Tuesday night, Facebook announced the first steps it is taking to comply with the General data protection regulation, or GDPR, the new code from Europe to ensure that users know and understand the data companies collect about them and agreed to exchange it. The set needs to be adopted on 25 may GDPR is the most radical overhaul of privacy on the Internet for more than two decades.
Starting this week, Facebook is introducing what he called a new “experience of confidentiality,” – said the Director of privacy at Facebook, Erin Egan, and Deputy General counsel Ashley Berringer in a post laying out the changes.
The ad seeks to cast changes, as what Facebook wanted to do that, given the past bad behavior of the company in the field of protection of User data and history, Mark Zuckerberg, privacy violations and an apology is probably not.
European users will begin to see changes this week, they will be asked to agree with some elements of Facebook and asked to provide terms of service a second look. Facebook users in the United States and the rest of the world is expected to do the same treatment “at a slightly later time”.
Here is what Facebook says the changes, starting in Europe:
- Facebook will prompt users to say whether they want to see targeted advertising based on political, religious, and relationship information they shared in their profiles or data collected by partners on Facebook. They also make it easier for people to remove information they don’t want to share.
- Users in the European Union and Canada to ask whether they want to disable Facebook facial recognition it uses, for example, to recommend to tag you in photos posted by others. (The facial recognition technology is already optional for those who are on Facebook.)
- Facebook will offer users agree to the terms of service and data policy, which was updated earlier this month.
- People under the age of 18 will have some of the features, including requiring the permission of a parent or guardian for those aged 13 to 15 years to see targeted ads in some European countries and limited exchange and less personalized advertising. Later this year, Facebook will introduce a new “global online resource center” for Teens.
Facebook said the new setting and the context of privacy it presented last week, was built with the GDPR in mind and will begin to appear this week. They greatly facilitate the privacy tools Facebook to find, including those that allow you to find, download, and delete your Facebook data. (Jen VOX Kirby is the explanation how to do it, and what you will find out, Facebook was tracking you on pretty wild.)
Adjustments GDPR Facebook Is the first step in a long road to fixing the problem of data privacy
The scandal of the Cambridge analyst who left their data, about 87 million people are exposed, has started a global debate on privacy practices Facebook and how much he knows and shares about its users.
Before news of the scandal broke out in Europe, which has traditionally been tougher on large technologies, had GDPR ready. But in the United States, legislators and regulators were caught off guard. Have some ideas for cracking down on Facebook in the United States, including offer an honest Declaration of the Law on political advertising
Zuckerberg, CEO and Chairman of Facebook, gave evidence for several hours before Senate and house committees last week, and the results were less than satisfactory. Many legislators, particularly the Senate, seem to be confused about what Facebook is doing and what his problem is. Most of the time, Zuckerberg turn easier answer and said that his team will follow.
“Now Congress can’t even decide on lunch, so don’t expect anything meaningful from them,” recently told Kara Swisher, a veteran technical journalist and Executive editor of recode, Sean Illing VOX.
Zuckerberg said that many of the GDPR-the necessary changes will be applied on a global scale, although it is largely not the specifics. Because European users will begin to see changes this week, else we will have to wait and see.
Sourse: vox.com
