Facebook Privacy Control 299x300 Facebook Privacy ControlGiven the privacy issues that have occurred, some voices are quick to say that Facebook has not only to repair the damage to their users for their arbitrary and not always well explained changes to the privacy policy, but must also submit some long-term rules to gain the trust of users. The following set of basic rights for users of Facebook  would be a good start:

  • Let the game clear. Facebook provides a valuable free service in exchange for giving the opportunity to make money with data and location preference. For many users this is a completely fair bargaining, but Facebook should be required to clearly explain the terms current and potential users, giving them the opportunity to delete a Facebook account. Also, Facebook often introduced new policies and features proclaiming their supposed benefits to users, forgetting to mention how the changes could also make more user data are public. This should always be clear to all users.
  • Facebook should devise a system that would immediately know the level of privacy each demographic data on interests, preferences or anyone who has put on the site.
  • Allow choose to share data. When you add new information about a user on Facebook, this information is generally visible to all, including people who perform a search. However, the default for most of these data should not be shared. Although some of the personal data should be made public to participate in Facebook, everybody else should rely on the user’s decision.
  • More control over the photos. Facebook should get my permission before allowing another user to label me a photo. As it works now, I have the right to remove the labels that others use to identify in a photo, but I have the right to approve (or reject) label before it appears. Give the opportunity to remove the tag-guessing is not enough control over my private life.
  • One way Facebook makes money is through the exchange of agreements with developers that offer applications on Facebook. When Facebook offers an application such as adding or Farmville Mafia Wars user account only becomes aware that the application can remove your profile information, photos, friends. The application should report exactly what information will access the application.
  • What happens in Facebook should remain on Facebook. None of the contacts, friends, tags, or links must be indexable by search engines without my consent.
  • Facebook should give users 14 days in advance when any significant change in its data management policies is imminent and warn if the data may have been leaked or lost.
  • Accept responsibility when things go wrong. Facebook should be responsible for theft or loss of data. It should also clearly explain the risks of trusting the site with personal information and describe the administrative and legal options available to users whose data is lost or being misused.
  • Giving the right to cancel Facebook account, finding and removing all personal data and means that have sent their servers immediately.