Users of critiqued company Facebook will be able to view and delete ir data more easily in future. In addition, group wants to be more transparent about how it deals with user data, writes Facebook's data protection officer Erin Egan and deputy head of legal department, Ashlie Beringer, in a communication. The innovations are part of requirements of new EU Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO), which will enter into force in just under two months, but should apply worldwide. They are to be implemented in coming weeks.

Facebook announced to remodel entire settings menu. In future, data protection settings will no longer be scattered through many different sub-items in menu, but under a single location. Users get more security settings and should be able to view and delete ir posts, responses, sent friend requests and search requests. You can also control apps more clearly.

"We also make it easier to download information you've shared with Facebook — it's your data in end," it says in message. Images, contacts, or posts can n be downloaded backed up and exported to a service.

"It's time to make our privacy settings easier to find"

According to communication entitled "It's time to make our privacy settings easier to find," Facebook has been working on most of changes for months. The events of past days, however, would underline ir importance. "The past week has shown us how much more we need to work to enforce our rules and help people understand how Facebook works and what options y have in dealing with ir data," managers write.

A few days ago it was known that data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica has been illicitly evaluating information from about 50 million Facebook users. The company, which later assisted US President Donald Trump in his campaign, had received data from a British researcher. This one had spread an app with a psychology survey on Facebook, in which about 300,000 people participated. Facebook was n massively criticized. Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg is supposed to testify before US Congress, company also recorded strong price losses on stock market.

Lawsuit in California

Just before announcement, three users had sued group before a district court in California for alleged breaches of data protection in ir Messenger app. The complainants, who seek a class action lawsuit, accuse Facebook of keeping records of phone calls and text messages. They demand damages without giving exact details. Facebook was initially unavailable for an opinion.

On Sunday, Facebook had allowed some users to keep chronicle of phone calls and messages, but without content. This was case for users who would have opted in via an Android operating system.

Date Of Update: 29 March 2018, 12:03