META announces privacy policy changes; No new access rights to user data
Meta Platforms Inc., the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, announced on Thursday that it has completely redesigned and rewritten its privacy policy for ease of understanding, including its Terms of Services, effective July 26.
“The privacy landscape has undergone several changes over the past three years, including people’s desire to understand how their data is being used,” the company said.
In fact, this is when the rights of individuals to their privacy or the human right to privacy are hotly debated globally.
The human right to privacy relates to an individual’s ability to determine when, how, and for what purpose others, including companies, handle their personal information.
Protecting privacy is essential to ensuring dignity, security and trust. It allows individuals to choose how their data is used and develop their personalities freely without any concern of abuse.
The social media giant said that the change to its privacy policy does not give the company any new access rights to user data, and instead, it will allow Meta to serve ads all-in-one based on customer preferences and sharing of information. Gives more power with controls. single location.
“While the language looks different in many places, these updates don’t give us any new rights over people’s data. Here we aim to be clearer and more transparent by adding more details and examples of our data practices,” Meta said.
“We’ve also introduced new controls to manage the topics users want to see ads about as well as who sees their posts. While people will start getting in-product notifications from 5/26, this The new version will be effective from July 26, 2022,” the social media company added.
Meta also said that the updated policy covers Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, but not WhatsApp, and that the overhauled design provides consolidated access to privacy-related controls, more examples of data practices rather than legal speaking. with.
Referring to this, the company listed the following updates:
,clear redesign: We have redesigned and rewritten our Privacy Policy to make it easier and easier for people to access the controls we provide to manage their privacy.
update control: We’ve added more details about how we use and share information with third parties and introduced new controls to manage who sees people’s posts and the topics users want to see ads about. have done.
Central location: our new privacy center Now supports the Privacy Policy, making it more readily available and easier to access with the Meta Privacy Tool.”