Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Facebook Privacy Policy to Shed Complexity

facebook_main_page_thumb_original_0If there’s one thing that’s probably created more trouble for Mark Zuckerberg than the Winklevoss twins, it’s Facebook’s very own privacy policy. With millions of users’ personal data at stake, the social networking giant’s privacy policy has justifiably been in the public glare for a while now and so far, it hasn’t ended up looking too good. Therefore, it doesn’t come as much of a surprise that Facebook now wants to simplify their privacy policy so as to make it easier to understand for the average user.
 Last Friday, a post on Facebook’s Site Governance blog revealed that the privacy policy would be getting looked at and changed in a way it would be “easy to understand,” “visual and executive” and “focused on frequently asked questions.”  You can check out the newly designed privacy policy page now. We took a look at the two and the new policy does look more refreshing and easier to read. Here’s a comparison shot of the introduction pages of the old page and the new one:

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