Facebook Tries to Simplify Privacy Policy
In an effort to take some of the legalese out of a legal document, Facebook Inc. unveiled a new draft of its closely watched privacy policy.
The new policy doesn’t change the social network’s data-handling practices, said Edward Palmieri, a privacy and product counsel at Facebook. Rather, the goal was to “apply the Facebook design experience that we bring to everything we do and extend that to our privacy policy.”
In place of an existing document that Facebook admitted was “longer than the U.S. constitution – without the amendments,” the draft policy contains chunks of information organized around more practical headings such as “Your information and how it is used” and “how advertising works.”
Read more: online.wsj.com
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