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Facebook Formalizes Updated Privacy Policy
By Kenneth Corbin
November 19, 2009

Facebook is a terrific place to market your e-commerce business, but it’s important to understand your rights when it comes to privacy on the site. Kenneth Corbin at InternetNews.com explains the latest changes.


Facebook has formalized an update to its privacy rules in an effort to bring clarity and simplicity to the social networking giant's policies.

Facebook had published the rules as a proposal in late October, giving users one week to submit comments before codifying the new rules.

But fewer than 7,000 people commented, a turnout that failed to meet Facebook's minimum threshold to throw open a policy change to a vote.

"Because of this -- and the fact that many of the comments were positive -- we've decided to adopt the revised policy," Facebook Deputy General Counsel Mhael Richter explained in a blog post announcing the changes.

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