Facebook Introduces Privacy Basics, Updates Privacy Policy, Expands Advertising Controls

Facebook Thursday announced a host of new features aimed at enabling its users to better understand the social network’s privacy settings, as well as to control the types of ads they see, and the company is also updating its privacy policy to provide more clarity on how it collects and uses location information.

PrivacyBasics650Facebook Thursday announced a host of new features aimed at enabling its users to better understand the social network’s privacy settings, as well as to control the types of ads they see, and the company is also updating its privacy policy to provide more clarity on how it collects and uses location information.

Chief privacy officer Erin Egan introduced Facebook’s new Privacy Basics portal in a Newsroom post, describing it as follows:

Privacy Basics offers interactive guides to answer the most commonly asked questions about how you can control your information on Facebook.

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