Sunday, 10 October 2010

Facebook reveals new tools to improve privacy



California - (Reuters)






In an attempt to protect the leadership of rival Google Inc. revealed the growing social networking site (Facebook) for new tools to give users more control over personal information and allow them to create groups of friends.






And features make "clusters" of the new easy to half a billion users of Facebook Interaction with selected circuits of friends instead of displaying photos and personal messages in public on the family and comrades in the study and colleagues alike.






Said Mark Zuckerberg, co-founder of Facebook The change should make people feel more confidence for the dissemination of personal information on the service. Analysts say that this change is meant in part to reverse the image of the various departments, which navigates to the people in their actual lives.






He said Zuckerberg told reporters at his headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. "If we can do this, we can open up a huge amount of posts that wants to be carried out by people, but today they can not do this because it is either very annoying or no arrangements privacy intact to be able to do so on a scale large scale. "






And Facebook, which has been criticized for lack of privacy controls will provide users a special file containing all the personal data that they uploaded to the service according to demand as well as a way to monitor any third-party applications to link their own data.






Comes the new image for the facebook groups after a few months of the deployment of employees in Google's report indicating the inability of social networks like Facebook to distinguish between various social groups which belong to the individual in real life.






Said Ray Valdes, analyst at Gartner Industry Research, "This is part of pre-emptive attack against Google."


http://www.alriyadh.com/2010/10/08/article566167.html


Valdez said "It is to address the real problem was a weak spot in the service of facebook."

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