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Ottawa announces changes to Facebook operations
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Aug 27, 2009 11:31am |
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| Author | CTV.ca News Staff |
| News Date | Thursday, August 27, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Facebook will make a series of changes to its website operations and privacy policy to better protect its worldwide users from privacy violations, after a series of negotiations with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.
The Office of the Privacy Commissioner had investigated Facebook for more than a year and had communicated a number of privacy concerns to the California-based company.
The Canadian privacy watchdog had told Facebook that one of its biggest concerns was with the amount of personal information it shared with third-party developers who built applications -- like online games and quizzes -- for the popular social networking site.
In response, Facebook said it would retrofit its website with new controls that would limit the personal information that the estimated one million worldwide developers could access.
Another change will see Facebook make it clearer to users that there is a difference between deleting an account and making it inactive.
Also, the company will permanently delete the personal information of Facebook users who have deactivated their accounts. |
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