Facebook Briefs Users On Privacy And Addresses Their Concerns

Facebook addressed on Tuesday, December 4, concerns raised by privacy advocates about the proposed changes to its governing documents for privacy policy in a live video stream.
The Facebook DC Talks LIVE page streamed a discussion that lasted over half an hour of questions and answers between three Facebook employees: Sarah Feinberg, Director of Policy Communications and host of the conversation, Katherine Tassi, Head of Data Protection at Facebook Ireland, and Rob Sherman, Manager of Privacy …

Facebook Proposes Updates To Privacy Policy Documents, Blocks User Voting Mechanism

Facebook has revealed its proposed updates to its site governance documents over privacy policies.
Elliot Schrage, VP of Communications, Public Policy and Marketing at Facebook, revealed today the social network’s proposal to make some changes on two documents that govern its site.
With nearly one billion users, Facebook has been the center of scrutiny of privacy groups because of its perfunctory implementation of user privacy.
In 2009, the firm launched a voting mechanism to gain user …

Facebook Clarifies, Explains, Confuses..with New SRR

Social networking website Facebook, which has seen an increasing number of complaints about its privacy policy and the way it handles user data even as it becomes more popular, this week announced it has made further changes to its terms of use document.
 
The document, which Facebook refers to as “Statement of Rights and Responsibilities” (SRR), is open for comment to the public until April 27th 2012 at 5 p.m. PDT. Facebook last month announced it was going to make changes to its SRR, …