Facebook's Potential For Putting User Data to Work Off Network Stirs Debate

12.05.2012

"[T]he Irish Data Protection Commissioner's Office -- which regulates our European affiliate, Facebook Ireland -- encouraged us to enhance our Data Use Policy to be even more detailed about how we use information," wrote Facebook Chief Privacy Officer Erin Egan in a statement.

Even if the privacy of your data on Facebook and how the social network uses it doesn't concern you, the changes it plans to make to its Data Use Policy are worth checking out. A even shows line by line what was deleted and added to the document -- a highly transparent move for a company so often criticized for infringing upon user privacy.

The changes Facebook is proposing to its policy aren't final and to get user input on them the company will host an interactive on Monday.

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