Facebook, starts the era of opt-in
Facebook is the agreement with the Federal Trade Commission for a new management policy for the protection of privacy.
Today begins a new era for Facebook. It all begins with a statement of the Federal Trade Commission, the announcement of an agreement reached between the parties to put an end to investigations that have kept the social network under observation in the past months as a result of some slopes on the protection of privacy.
For twenty years, first of all, Facebook will have to produce special reports on measures taken to protect the privacy of community, twenty years under close observation, in short, with the obligation to provide all the necessary documents to the FTC (produced by third-party organizations with autonomous and independent) to ensure full control over the practices adopted by the company. From the start, however, the group will have to adapt to the charges agreed to do so as of right of the now the community of 800 million users that can see guaranteed of the security of their data online.
Among the measures granted to the figure as the compulsory deletion of data on all users within a maximum of 30 days from the cancellation of their account. In the past, it was discovered how the data were never deleted from the server, allowing a user to re-register back into the account previously held “off”. Under the new agreement no one can access a user’s data over 30 days of cancellation, making the final decision to abandon the social network and have the confidence to leave no traces behind him.
A fundamental aspect of the agreement is also the absolute imposition of the logic in the future opt-in group policy. This means that, unlike in the past, any change to any social networks will be accepted by the user through a special agreement. In the absence of consent, for example, Facebook can no longer make public data already loaded in the past, by doing this retrospectively on the settings and user profiles.
With this arrangement, each slope between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission is closed. Mark Zuckerberg has published, while the output of the communication of the FTC, its own analysis of the issue: the number of a group of Palo Alto did not deny the sins of their group and reminded both Beacons as errors made more recently. According to Zuckerberg, few serious errors have eclipsed, however, all that good Facebook was able to do: for the first time the user is in the hands a tool with which can share information having full control over the routes and the limits of this opening.
The intervention of Zuckerberg is furthermore particularly intense in the assumption of responsibility that the young founder of the group gathers about himself: Facebook is a community with hundreds of millions of users, a great people which Facebook entrusts its data and its confidence. To answer a charge so onerous, Zuckerberg has appointed two new leaders, both committed on the same front: Erin Egan and Michael Richter.
A new era begins, and users now have the FTC on their side as a function of the guarantor. Facebook, reinforced the situation and guaranteed a pardon on the grave mistakes of the past, may start on its part towards Wall Street with restored virginity.
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