Facebook is the famous social networking site that has billions of users globally. Recently Facebook revised their privacy policy that let them track the users even when they are not on Facebook.
Facebook has revised their privacy policy last November
( 2014 ) and it came to effect from the previous Friday. According to the policy Facebook can track you even after you have left Facebook site to surf other pages.
The new policy allows it to gather data about the user from Internet in addition to the normal data when the user post something or add friends to your network. Facebook can also pass this information with its subsidiaries like WhatsApp and Instagram.
The interesting fact is that all the users already agreed to this new privacy policy by logging into their accounts from previous Friday
( 30.01.15 ). Facebook management says that the new policy will help them tabulate data advert to the users and avoid serving unwanted information to the user.
There is an option for privacy likers, they can opt out for some parts of the new policy by customizing privacy settings. If the user wants to opt out of Facebook tracking your use when the user is not on Facebook, the user can opt out by visiting individual pages listed in the privacy settings page for respective countries. It is as shown
Facebook also says that users can do so even from their mobiles and also from tablet screens and the settings will be treated as same across the board.
P.S : The post is to create awareness and not to create any negative impact.
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