The issue of ‘Facebook privacy’ is at the heart of a quarrel again as enraged Facebook users have initiated a campaign to prevent alterations to Facebook’s current privacy policy.
The Facebook managers have recommended that the policy of allowing the users to vote on privacy changes be annulled. As per the managers of the powerful social networking website, this kind of Facebook privacy policy provides incentives to the quantity of comments over their quality.
The new Facebook privacy policy, recommended by the website’s managers, has been worded by them as a more ‘meaningful system’ of monitored comments and assessments.
Websites such as Our-Policy.org are requesting netizens to post their observations on the page where the new Facebook privacy plans were revealed.
Facebook, which, recently, received its one billionth user, has been flooded with comments from 10535 people so far, ever since the new Facebook privacy plan was announced on Wednesday. The comments have expressed single-minded opposition to the announcement of the new Facebook privacy plans. The users have requested that Facebook not snatch their right to vote from them.
As per Facebook’s incumbent privacy policy, the privacy policy changes are presented for a vote if at least 7000 people comment on the same issue.
Facebook VP Elliot Schrage, in an email to the website’s users, has remarked that he profoundly values the inputs of the users. Historically, substantive feedbacks from Facebook users have produced changes in the recommendations made by the Facebook management.
Elliot Schrage has guaranteed that fundamental changes to Facebook’s Data Use Policy would continue to be posted, succeeded by a 7-day period for reviews and observations from users. But Schrage assured that the users’ views will be respected before making modifications to any existing policy.
Meanwhile, Facebook is also recommending alterations to its Data Use Policy, such as making it crystal-clear that, when users hide a post or picture from their profile page or ‘timeline’, those posts are not genuinely concealed and can be seen elsewhere, including on another person’s page.
