Facebook is launching 'Privacy Center' to educate people on their privacy options and make it easier to understand how the company collects and uses user information. In Privacy Center, you can learn about Facebook's approach to privacy, read their Data Policy and learn how to use privacy and security controls.
Currently Privacy Center is available to some people using Facebook on desktop, and will be rolled out to more people and apps in the coming months. "We’ve built a number of privacy and security controls across our apps and technologies over the years, and our goal is for Privacy Center to serve as a hub for those controls and privacy education," said Facebook in a statement.
The current version of Privacy Center has five modules, each containing guides and controls related to a common privacy topic:
- Security: You can brush up on account security, set up tools like two-factor-authentication or learn more about how Meta fights data scraping.
- Sharing: You can visit this guide if you have questions about who sees what you post, or how you can clean up old posts on your profile using tools like Manage Activity.
- Collection: Learn about the different types of data that Meta collects, and how you can view that data through tools like Access Your Information.
- Use: Learn more about how and why we use data, and explore the controls we offer to manage how your information is used.
- Ads: Learn more about how your information is used to determine the ads you see, and make use of ad controls like Ad Preferences.
People who have access to this initial launch can find Privacy Center by navigating to Settings and Privacy on the desktop version of Facebook.
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