Facebook makes it easier to change your privacy settings

The company is lagging behind, and postphones the launch of its own smarthouse.

Facebook has been in exceptionally hard weather in recent weeks after it became known that they have allowed third party companies to use data from more than 50 million American Facebook profiles. The scandal has grown steadily, especially after it became known that this was done partly against the users' will and could have had a decisive impact on the outcome of the US presidential election.

Therefore, it is hardly surprising that the company now announces major changes in the manner in which you manage your privacy. At the time of writing, the changes did not land on the signature's phone, but it should not be far away should we believe the company itself.

Today, Facebook's settings appear more like a maze than an easy navigable menu, with almost infinite submenus and confusing options. In the future, this will be simplified so that you get a few clear choices that take you right to the most important privacy choices.

It will also be more graphical than before, with new icons and larger, clearer categories and text. This is how the company hopes to regain trust and confidence after some very turbulent weeks.

"We need to be much better at handling users' data
Facebook also apologizes in the same post where they present the new changes, and lay more or less flat:

Last week, we showed how much more work we have to do to strengthen our guidelines and help people understand and control their own data and how Facebook works. We have heard - quite clearly - that privacy settings and other important tools are very difficult to find and that we need to do more to inform our users.

The changes Facebook is now performing will firstly find in the settings menu, which will now look like in the right picture (old interface on the left):

In addition, an option called "Shortcuts for Privacy", which until now has been quite difficult to navigate in. This menu is now becoming both clearer and much more graphically oriented, with some sort of "map" structure a find in Google's Material Design philosophy.

Here you will be able to do four things quickly and easily:

Account Security: You should be able to add more security layers around your account and ensure that others can not access it
Personal Information: You get a better overview of what you share and with whom. In addition, perhaps most importantly; You can delete everything you want from here.
Advertising Control: You will have control of the information used to show you advertising in the app.
Profile and Post Control: You can choose which of your posts and profiles that appear to who.

You will also get much better opportunities than before to download everything Facebook knows about you, and - more importantly - delete it permanently. Facebook apparently wants to explain the changes more carefully in an update of its terms of use, which will come in the next few weeks. In addition:

These updates are all about transparency - not about gaining more rights to collect, use, or share data.

The company also makes some other grips in the same turn, and now exposes the launch of its own smarthouse. It reports PhoneArena, who believes that Facebook should unveil the new product at its annual developer conference in May.

According to Bloomberg, one source has stated that "... the speaker will be the subject of a deeper review, to make sure it makes the right user data priorities." Very little is known about the speaker, but it still seems that it will be launched after all - Facebook simply wants to ride the storm before that time.

However, it is asked if it is possible to save the rumor completely and already some users have begun suing the company to use their personal data in a way they have not said yes. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg must respond to himself and the company in a hearing at the US Congress - although he officially refuses to do the same in the British parliament.