Facebook enforces new privacy policy
Facebook put to vote June 1 through 8 the question of whether or not users would like to remain with the now year old Statement of Rights and Responsibilities and Data Use Policy or change to a newly updated version.
Reports shows that 342,632 users participated in the vote, with around 87 percent voting to keep Facebook’s existing SRR and Data Use Policy.
Yet despite an overwhelming negative response to the new privacy policy, Facebook has decided to implement the policy regardless.
Elliot Schrage, vice president of communications, public policy and marketing at Facebook, has said the reason behind the implementation despite the vote was that the number of voters was less than 30 percent of all 900 million Facebook users.
“Despite our substantial outreach effort, the number of people who voted constituted such a small and unrepresentative percentage of our user community,” Schrage said.
Users have spoken out against Facebook's go ahead, saying the option to vote on the policy change was not promoted and that few users were aware there would be a change in the future.
Facebook says the new policies “clarify rather than fundamentally change our standards” and reflect recently launched products or conform language between various policies.
The changes can be viewed at: https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms and https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/.
If you'd like to see updates from Facebook concerning new policies that will be voted on in the future they can be accessed at https://www.facebook.com/fbsitegovernance.
