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Released: December 22, 2011
Facebook agrees to privacy changes in Europe
Source: Melissa Eddy, Associted Press (USA Today)
Facebook has agreed to make several changes to its services to improve transparency and better protect the personal data of its millions of users outside of the U.S., following an in-depth audit of its international headquarters that was released Wednesday. The social media company, based in Palo Alto, Calif., agreed to changes including asking European users if they wanted to partake in its Facial Recognition, reworking its policies of retaining and deleting private data, reducing the amount of information collected about people who are not logged into Facebook, the company said in response to a report of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner.Read Full Article: Facebook agrees to privacy changes in Europe
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