Heads up, you secretive Facebook users who have made yourself unsearchable on the world\u2019s most popular social networking platform: You can hide no more.<\/p>\n
Facebook announced updated privacy features<\/a> \u2014 again \u2014 recently, and one of the tweaks certain to draw some outrage is the elimination of that privacy<\/a> control. There are, however, some changes that will likely be viewed in a positive light, including a one-click button with which users can block individuals from viewing their profile.<\/p>\n \u201cThere are a billion users and blocking is the ultimate way of saying I don\u2019t want to interact with this person,\u201d Sam Lessin, Facebook\u2019s director of product, told the New York Times<\/em>. \u201cWe think blocking is really positive.\u201d<\/p>\n Other additions include a new suite of top-level controls called Privacy<\/a> Shortcuts that lets users quickly change who can see their content and who can contact them through the site.<\/p>\n The changes are intended to address user complaints that Facebook\u2019s privacy<\/a> controls are confusing, charges that have only increased since it forced users to convert their profiles to the \u201cTimeline\u201d scrapbook-like layout.<\/p>\n But this latest round of revisions hasn\u2019t satisfied every critic. Marc Rotenberg of the Electronic Privacy<\/a> Information Center told the Washington Post<\/em> that he believes users still don\u2019t have enough control of what they share and with whom and that this latest shift continues the company\u2019s usual tendency to \u201cchange opt-ins to opt-outs, which means it\u2019s easier to share data. And then they come back later and say they\u2019re going to give clearer notices.\u201d<\/p>\n Time will tell how these new changes are received \u2013 and how long it is until the company revamps its privacy<\/a> features yet again, as they so often do. One this is for sure though \u2013 users won\u2019t have any say anymore in what Facebook does. The company\u2019s decision to change its privacy<\/a> guidelines included a decision to no longer let users vote on Facebook policy changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Heads up, you secretive Facebook users who have made yourself unsearchable on the world\u2019s most popular social networking platform: You can hide no more. Facebook announced updated privacy features \u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,43,121],"class_list":{"0":"post-930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-facebook","9":"tag-privacy","10":"tag-updates"},"hreflang":[{"hreflang":"en-ae","url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/facebook-privacy-changes\/930\/"},{"hreflang":"en-in","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.in\/blog\/facebook-privacy-changes\/930\/"},{"hreflang":"en-us","url":"https:\/\/usa.kaspersky.com\/blog\/facebook-privacy-changes\/930\/"},{"hreflang":"en-gb","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.uk\/blog\/facebook-privacy-changes\/930\/"},{"hreflang":"x-default","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/facebook-privacy-changes\/930\/"},{"hreflang":"ja","url":"https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.co.jp\/facebook-privacy-changes\/290\/"},{"hreflang":"en-au","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com.au\/blog\/facebook-privacy-changes\/930\/"},{"hreflang":"en-za","url":"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.co.za\/blog\/facebook-privacy-changes\/930\/"}],"acf":[],"banners":"","maintag":{"url":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/facebook\/","name":"Facebook"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15462,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930\/revisions\/15462"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me-en.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}