In Facebook does not owe them any good sitting this sudden desired privacy that aired some of its users. Its founder Mark Zuckerberg is giving the face on this issue lest they get out of hand and just today unveiled the new privacy page that we announced and confirmed this week . This page will be gradually deployed to all users in the coming weeks, starting now.
This new privacy page contains, finally, a master switch that allows us to restrict all of our content to a certain type of users with one click. Again it is important: with just one click you can change all of a sudden all the privacy settings Facebook provides you now. And if you add new features, also subject to this megaopción, unlike now, that you usually apply the least restrictive of all.
Of course all of the above options are still available for those who want to make more granular settings . In general it is a very good step forward that improves the current situation as complex as ridiculously funny. There are more than 170 options are expanding every day as they add functionality to this network.
The second change is that now no longer required to share or your friends list or message to which you subscribe. These two options were changed in December, causing this turmoil pro-privacy. It is normal, two is something we can control, to contain very personal data. I think for example a job interview and, if the option is selected, the interviewer before see and know all your affiliations and where you move.
The third change is something that users seeking productivity will appreciate: a button to disable all applications on the platform. Not only hides the notifications, but everything related to the applications is inaccessible. Even if you had given prior permission for some applications to access your data, will be revoked until they turn on the platform. But beware, because this not only applies to games or applications within Facebook, but also web sites (such as Genbeta), who use the system to identify users Facebook.
Continuing with the previous item, you can now disable customization . This feature prevents access of external sites to all the information you have marked as public. The latest news is that there will be news about the new privacy and will not change and more options, but receiving feedback to make small tweaks.
At the same time, they have fixed a huge security bug in which advertisers could guess who clicks on your ads, via the referer to the page you are viewing. Since it is a problem that can affect any social network (or website), the official blog of how they inform engineers now redirects to not display any personal information.
Although no large web is gone or going to go to the bottom for privacy issues, the fact is that this discussion is eroding the brand while planning to dethrone Google in its Plan of World Conquest 2.0. How to offer users a secure environment with your data if while you are basing your future on selling them? How to tell the user that is good to open up its data to make it indexable if the benefits it is you and not them?
Social networks Personally I have always remembered a bar or club, or in the case of Facebook, a zone of nightclubs. The masses are moved by fashion and also make it very gradually, not dramatically by matters trivial as privacy or because the door will not let you enter with socks Dumbo. I am sure that if in a few years Facebook stops receiving the attention it now has of its users because a new actor will unseat him, not because the users will go to an existing social network because they do not like Facebook. What do you think is going to end this controversy?
Computer, Technology | admin, 2 Jun 10 | 
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