Social networking site Facebook is revising its privacy controls in a move to give users the ability to control who sees the information they share on the site.
Chris Kelly, chief privacy officer of the Palo Alto, California-based company, wrote in a blogpost: “When we add new features to Facebook, we usually include a corresponding privacy setting. While this has helped give some people more individualised controls over particular features, it has made controlling privacy on Facebook too complicated.
In a move to simplify it, Facebook has launched a test with a group of users, who will try out the new settings introduced in system.
He added: “At one extreme, we believe people should have the tools to ‘broadcast’ information across the web and make it available to everyone. At the other extreme, we want to give people the power to limit who should receive any particular piece of information they want to share.”
The new settings are expected to give people more control over what photos, updates and personal details they share with others on Facebook.
The new lock icon, to be rolled out in the coming weeks, would enable the users to choose from the various pieces of content that they want to share with others.
