Facebook’s New Privacy Policy

Facebook announced on Tuesday that it has decided to implement a new revised privacy policy which is designed in such a way that it should be easily accessible and easier to understand it than before.

One of the social networks had arranged for a weeklong comment for the purpose of revising the privacy policy in which lots of people nearly 7000 members participated in commenting. Michael Richter, Deputy General Counsel of Facebook has written in a company’s blog saying that the votes were unnecessary according to Facebook’s rules.

Richter also added that the changes involve the simplification of the language that is used to describe and define the policy and document’s new infrastructure and those changes were supported by the members.

The company is planning to add visual resources to the site which is designed in order to make the document easily accessible, by including glossary of important factors and informational videos. Company is expecting to make revision in languages like French, English, German, Italian and Spanish soon.

An investigation was carried out in July by Canada’s Privacy Commissioner which stated that the Facebook is not concerned about the members’ privacy settings and asked to do it more. Commissioner also expressed that it is easy that members can deactivate their accounts but the process of deleting them is unclear. Facebook might have retained the data of the members from the deactivated accounts for an indefinite span of time.