Facebook Changes 2015 and how they deal with your Personal Information
With a lot of changes with the cookie policies on Facebook rolling into use in January 2015, I thought that the below link might help those concerned with their lack of privacy to turn off a number of the main advertisers that use their information as Facebook share and sell this personal information with a number of third parties.
The terms of use in Facebook used to give you the choice to opt out of such changes or to comment on their use but now the company have decided that the only way you can opt out of them using this information is by choosing to no longer use their services whatsoever (ie permanently close and destroy your account). Facebook now state that they will allow you 7 days notice knowing full well that people rarely read the TOS.
This option acts very much like a phone preference service and reduces the information that you allow third parties to have access to (even if Facebook sell it to them in the first place). As Facebook is so well integrated into our lives, closing your account is not an appropriate action for a number of users but their new security settings take more of the power away from you controlling your own privacy by giving it to the hands of them instead.
Please remember that Facebook is a money making organisation and that it's objectives are to make money. This is likely to mean that your information is safer if you maintain as much personal control as possible.
The following link helps to reduce much of the information shared with third parties but by no means eliminates it completely. It is also currently an EU legislation so will not apply if you are outside of the EU. Please share this more understandable alternative to the Facebook TOS with your friends or publicly.
The terms of use in Facebook used to give you the choice to opt out of such changes or to comment on their use but now the company have decided that the only way you can opt out of them using this information is by choosing to no longer use their services whatsoever (ie permanently close and destroy your account). Facebook now state that they will allow you 7 days notice knowing full well that people rarely read the TOS.
This option acts very much like a phone preference service and reduces the information that you allow third parties to have access to (even if Facebook sell it to them in the first place). As Facebook is so well integrated into our lives, closing your account is not an appropriate action for a number of users but their new security settings take more of the power away from you controlling your own privacy by giving it to the hands of them instead.
Please remember that Facebook is a money making organisation and that it's objectives are to make money. This is likely to mean that your information is safer if you maintain as much personal control as possible.
The following link helps to reduce much of the information shared with third parties but by no means eliminates it completely. It is also currently an EU legislation so will not apply if you are outside of the EU. Please share this more understandable alternative to the Facebook TOS with your friends or publicly.
Turn off a number of third parties with access to your information by clicking here
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