Facebook: "Additional measures" for the protection of personal data

Facebook has announced that it will take "additional measures" to more effectively protect users' personal data in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica (CA) scandal that is rocking the popular social media.

"In addition to the announcements made last week by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook," we will take additional steps in the coming weeks to allow users to have more control over their personal data, "his blog said. Facebook, which counts more than 2 million users.

"We have come to the following conclusion: we need to make confidentiality settings easier to understand, detect and use," the post reads: "New tools to control your data easily on Facebook."

"Most of these tools have been around for some time now, and the events of the last few days just underline their importance."

The network provides several examples of upcoming modifications, such as "a separate menu for the user to find and manage all the privacy settings" and "simple tools to find, download and delete your Facebook data".

 

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