Privacy on Facebook’s often seems like a moving target, and the company’s policies have certainly come under frequent fire. InternetNews.com takes a look at the latest outcome of a Canadian probe and what changes we can expect.
As part of a settlement agreement with Canadian regulators, social-networking giant Facebook posted a revamped privacy policy this afternoon, offering what it hopes will be a clearer and more acceptable framework for governing how it treats its users' personal information.
Facebook has been burned by privacy flare-ups several times in its brief history, and is seeking comment from its users on the new guidelines before settling on a final version.
Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president of communications and public policy, called the new privacy guidelines the "next step in our ongoing effort to run Facebook in an open and transparent way."
That process began in February when, reacting to widespread criticism over a change to the site's terms of usage, Facebook rolled out a statement of rights and responsibilities and a set of guiding principles, asking users to submit and vote on changes to the documents.
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