The Facebook Blog

This morning, we announced plans to give you more control over your information and to help you make more informed choices about privacy. We'll be making a series of improvements that include notifications and information about privacy settings and practices, additions to Facebook's privacy policy, and technical changes designed to give people more transparency and control over the information they provide to third-party applications.

These planned changes are a result of collaborative discussions we've had with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, which has spent more than a year reviewing Facebook's privacy policies and controls. You can read more about their announcement here. If you are a developer, you can read more about the potential impact for applications here.

The improvements we announced today are in addition to the tests we began in July of simpler privacy settings and tools for migrating people to the new controls. Those tests continue and we hope to roll them out to more of you in the coming months.

Giving people more control over what information they share and with whom is at the heart of how we think about privacy at Facebook. As people better understand how information is shared and gain more control over it, they become more comfortable and confident in sharing—whether it be photos of a vacation or a status update about how they're feeling today. As we complete these improvements in the coming months, we'll continue to share more details with you.


Tim Sparapani is director of public policy at Facebook.