Facebook can’t catch a break these days when it comes to privacy, but when you become the gatekeeper for info on hundreds of millions of users, that’s hardly surprising. The latest in a long line of VIPs to sound the whistle is the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes. The BBC reports that he’s asked Facebook to implement a series of changes giving users greater control over how their private information is used on Facebook, and who has access to it.
Hawkes’ concerns mostly center around a lack of transparency between Facebook and the web apps that run on the platform. He wants Facebook to inform users on exactly how their data is used by apps, who has access to it, and then give them the power to remove personal information from multiple databases. The request extends to Facebook developers and advertisers – ideally, users would be able to press a button and remove, say, their work history from Facebook, all Facebook apps and all its adverting partners.
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