Canadian Privacy Commissioner announced Wednesday it has completed its formal investigation into Facebook in the wake of updates recent company privacy policy.
The social networking site is totally free of the commission, however, that it will continue to monitor the features of Facebook, including the "Like" button.
"Facebook has implemented in response to the concerns we raised in our survey last year changes are reasonable and meet the expectations set out in the Canadian privacy," Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart said in a statement."Investigation... problems have been solved to my satisfaction."
Stoddart has worked with Facebook since August, when an investigation prompted Office to strengthen its privacy notices and embark on a review of its platform of développeur.En January year Facebook, it has announced that his Office was followed review online, profiling and targeting consumers by companies - including sites such as Facebook.
In may, Facebook introduced an update privacy policy providing a single window for selecting privacy settings made less publicly accessible information, Setup checks for pages and permits users to opt-out of third-party applications.
Stoddart said it is "happy that Facebook has developed simplified privacy settings and set up a tool that allows users to apply privacy to each photo or comment that they post".
In June, Facebook introduced a menu permissions-based application that explained what kind of information Facebook applications were collection on users.Third party applications have been a major concern for Stoddart, it said Wednesday.In particular, his Office was concerned that third-party developers had virtually "access without restriction to the personal information of users of Facebook."
Add this menu based on permissions "is a big improvement," says.
"Give people control their information has always been a priority for Facebook, and we welcome dialog we have had with [Canada Privacy Office] to clarify and improve our privacy practices,"Michael Richter, head of privacy Facebook, lawyer said in an instruction.Les "both Facebook and the OPC share the same objective of ensuring that everyone, including people of more than 15 million from Facebook in Canada, have control of their information." ""
Despite the conclusion of its inquiry, Stoddart said his work with Facebook "less than."Social to improve its supervisory application developer network site and make sure they are aware of their privacy responsibilities has asked the commission.OPC also warned that Facebook does step to develop categories of user information that makes it available to the public.
Stoddart said that her Office has also received some new complaints regarding Facebook invitation feature and its button "As".
"Facebook is constantly evolving and we are actively following changes — as well as on other social networking sites", she said. ""."We take action if we think that there is the potential of new Canadian privacy law violations."
Nevertheless, Stoddart praised Facebook for its cooperation and acknowledged that certain changes were "complex and time consuming."
"Making privacy controls on Facebook, comprehensive, and easy to understand is an important part of our commitment to give each person the power to control their own experience of Facebook, and will continue to be, even if this survey by OPC was concluded," Facebook Richter concluded.
No comments:
Post a Comment