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Facebook steps up privacy education, shares ‘privacy principles’ for first time

The company will be promoting privacy tools in the News Feed.

Greg Sterling on January 30, 2018 at 12:10 pm

Amid ongoing scrutiny and ahead of the May 2018 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) deadline in Europe, Facebook is undertaking a new privacy education campaign for users. The company outlined several steps it will take to help users better understand and access its privacy tools.

The education campaign will involve a series of videos in the News Feed that address a range of privacy-related topics: “How to control what information Facebook uses to show you ads, how to review and delete old posts, and even what it means to delete your account.”

The company is also promoting its Privacy Checkup and will be introducing a new “privacy center,” which will centralize privacy controls in a single place online. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg announced the new privacy center in Europe last week.

[Read the full article on Marketing Land.]

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Greg Sterling

Greg Sterling is a Contributing Editor at Search Engine Land. He writes a personal blog, Screenwerk, about connecting the dots between digital media and real-world consumer behavior. He is also VP of Strategy and Insights for the Local Search Association. Follow him on Twitter or find him at Google+.