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By Stephen Deadman, Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer, Facebook and Richard Gomer, Senior Research Assistant, Agents Interaction and Complexity Research Group, University of Southampton
Last weekend in Berlin, organizations including service innovation consultancy Work Play Experience, business consultancy Ctrl-Shift, the University of Southampton and Facebook piloted a unique workshop — called a...
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We are committed to building a community where people can feel safe making their voices heard. Our approach involves making careful decisions every day about how we use and protect data at Facebook. We also adopt policies that limit how developers, advertisers, and others can use our platform.

Over the years, we have learned the importance of updating these policies to offer more clarity or incorporate constructive feedback. These changes help us improve our community and dis...courage unwanted behavior. For example, we recently updated our Advertising Policies (https://www.facebook.com/policies/ads/) to ban ads that promote payday loans, and we prohibited companies from using Facebook data to make decisions about whether to approve or reject a loan application. Late last year, we updated our Advertising Policies to more explicitly prohibit various kinds of discriminatory advertising (https://www.facebook.com/…/prohibi…/discriminatory_practices).

Today we are adding language to our Facebook and Instagram platform policies to more clearly explain that developers cannot “use data obtained from us to provide tools that are used for surveillance.” Our goal is to make our policy explicit. Over the past several months we have taken enforcement action against developers who created and marketed tools meant for surveillance, in violation of our existing policies; we want to be sure everyone understands the underlying policy and how to comply.

We're grateful for community leaders like the American Civil Liberties Union of California, Color of Change, and the Center for Media Justice, who worked with us for the past several months on this update and have helped bring public attention to this important issue while advocating for positive change. For example, ACLU of California will discuss social media surveillance with a panel of experts at the SXSW conference later today.

We will continue using our policies to support our community, and we hope that these efforts will help encourage other companies to take positive steps as well.

Facebook Platform Policy: https://developers.facebook.com/policy
Instagram Platform Policy: https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/terms/api/

Rob Sherman is Deputy Chief Privacy Officer at Facebook.

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Today we're introducing a new Privacy Basics (https://www.facebook.com/about/basics). This resource makes it easy to find answers to your most common questions about privacy and learn how to control your information on Facebook.

Privacy Basics puts you in the driver's seat with 32 interactive guides available in 44 languages. It offers tips for things like securing your account, understanding who can see your posts, and knowing what your profile looks like to others. You c...an see a quick overview of Privacy Basics here (http://newsroom.fb.com/…/introducing-the-new-privacy-basics/).

Heading into Data Privacy Day (January 28th), we're joining organizations around the world to help people learn more about how they can control their information. These organizations include privacy experts like the National Cyber Security Alliance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the Center for Democracy and Technology. State attorneys general and other policymakers are also launching new videos on Facebook to help their communities understand more about their privacy choices.

Today's launch is just one part of our overall effort to give people the tools to share what they want with only the people they want to see it. We hope Privacy Basics helps answer people's questions about privacy and makes it easier for everyone to take charge of their information.

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Today Facebook announced the results of a recent collaboration to help UNICEF fight the Zika virus more effectively in Brazil. The campaign provides a model for how organizations can apply online data in new ways to launch more effective responses to crises and disasters. UNICEF needed a way to run more effective online campaigns in Brazil to educate at-risk communities about how they could protect themselves from Zika. Facebook was able to share aggregated, anonymized insigh...ts from Facebook posts about how people were talking about Zika. No individual’s information was shared, nor was anyone’s experience on Facebook impacted by the analysis. UNICEF used the findings to build a data-driven Facebook ad campaign that outperformed their previous online efforts.

Devex published an in-depth story on the partnership this morning, highlighting Facebook’s focus on protecting people’s privacy: https://www.devex.com/…/how-facebook-statuses-informed-the-…

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A partnership between UNICEF and Facebook is one of a growing number of examples of public private partnerships turning real time data into actionable insights to counter global epidemics.
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Facebook has been helping to start a new conversation about data.

For too long, the debate about personal data has been seen as an attempt to balance - or trade-off - two apparently opposing forces: the desire for innovation and growth, and the right to privacy and security.

It’s become clear that this perspective is outdated. We need a new conversation.

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By Stephen Deadman, Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer
Today we announced that we will begin working with website publishers and app developers to show people better ads in more places across the internet, including to people not connected to Facebook. Newspapers, broadcasters, and many others rely on this kind of advertising to operate their websites and apps, and it's important to them, and their users, that they show relevant, high quality ads. Delivering a better ads experience to users and publishers is something Facebook is committed to.
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by Rob Sherman, Deputy Chief Privacy Officer
At Facebook, we’re working to help make the world more open and connected because we believe in the value of connection — that when people can interact with one another, that makes their lives better. Already, our work on connectivity has brought more than 15 million people online, from rural Colombia to the Philippines. Research shows that connectivit...
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In honor of Data Privacy Day 2016, we caught up with Attorney General Kamala Harris to get her top privacy tips. Check out the video and learn more about how you can control your privacy on Facebook with our Privacy Basics: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics

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In honor of Data Privacy Day 2016, we caught up with Elizabeth Denham, British Columbia's Information and Privacy Commissioner, to get her top privacy tips. Check out the video and learn more about how you can control your privacy on Facebook with our Privacy Basics: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics

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In honor of Data Privacy Day 2016, we caught up with Marty Jackley, South Dakota Attorney General, to get his top privacy tips. Check out the video and learn more about how you can control your privacy on Facebook with our Privacy Basics: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics

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In honor of Data Privacy Day 2016, we caught up with Hong Kong Privacy Commissioner Stephen Wong from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (Be SMART Online 網上私隱要自保 - PCPD Hong Kong) to get his top privacy tips. Check out the video and learn more about how you can control your privacy on Facebook with our Privacy Basics: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics

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By Stephen Deadman, Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer


With a global community of 1.5 billion people, we know that people will only trust Facebook if we do a good job of protecting their information. Efforts to harmonize regulatory approaches to privacy and data protection across the world play a vital role in realizing this goal, and the publicati...on of the Privacy Bridges report on Wednesday is significant step forward.

This initiative, spearheaded by Jacob Kohnstamm, chairman of the Dutch Data Protection Authority, identifies common ground between the EU and US privacy regimes and proposes practical transatlantic solutions to strengthen privacy protections for individuals. The report is the result of several meetings of experts in the EU and US over the past two years and comes just two weeks after the European Court of Justice struck down the EU/US Safe Harbour, which has generated significant debate about how legal systems in these two regions work together. While the report holds particular importance for the EU and US as the world's biggest trading bloc, it may offer essential insights for tackling the interoperability of systems for protecting people's privacy across other parts of the world.

We commend the report's recognition of commonly held values in the EU and US: upholding human rights, advancing the rule of law, increasing transparency of data processing, facilitating the assertion of privacy rights by individuals, and restraining government surveillance. The report is also frank and honest about the areas where both regimes can improve, and how adoption of best practices can promote privacy on both sides of the Atlantic. We also applaud the report's emphasis on the vital role that multi-stakeholder efforts play in developing practical, sustainable and meaningful privacy protections. Success in “bridging” EU and US approaches to privacy will require continued participation from regulatory authorities, civil society, industry and academia alike.

The report prioritizes several areas where organizations can enhance privacy protections. We share the authors' view that transparency, control and accountability are core to advancing the protection of personal data. These areas have been a big focus for Facebook, as we have sought to put people in control of the information they share, to provide greater transparency into how information is used, and to build the organizational structures that ensure respect for privacy is baked into everything we do.

Facebook was privileged to be invited to provide input to the Privacy Bridges experts group during its deliberations. We look forward to participating in this year's International Privacy Conference in Amsterdam next week and working with, and learning from, regulatory authorities, industry peers, civil society and privacy scholars to build a more harmonized approach to privacy and data protection across the Atlantic and beyond.

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By Stephen Deadman, Global Deputy Chief Privacy Officer


We sometimes hear from people that the ads they see aren't as useful or relevant to them as they could be. Last year, we introduced online interest-based advertising – ads based on people's use of other websites and apps – that helps solve this problem. For example, with online interest-based a...ds, if you visit hotel and airline websites to research an upcoming trip, you might then see ads for travel deals on Facebook. 

We let everyone know about this new type of advertising last year, and we've been gradually introducing it around the world. We also offered people tools to turn off these ads, including the Digital Advertising Alliance AdChoices program, which provides a mechanism that allows you to opt out across more than 100 companies. Additional tools are provided in the advertising controls on iOS and Android devices.

Today, we're introducing an additional way for people to turn off this kind of advertising from the ad settings page right on Facebook. If you choose to use this tool, it will become the master control for online interest-based advertising across all of your devices and browsers where you use Facebook. 

If you’ve already made a choice about online interest-based ads using existing tools, you don't need to do anything. We'll continue to honor your choice across all of your devices and browsers where you use Facebook. And we’ll of course continue to support the Digital Advertising Alliance, as well as the iOS and Android tools going forward.

We are continuing to roll out online interest-based advertising and will now begin including information from pages that use Facebook's Like button and similar social features, as we announced last year. We hope that the ads people see will continue to become more useful and relevant and that this new control will make it easier for people to have the ads experience they want.

You can learn more about advertising on Facebook and the controls you have by visiting our Help Center.



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In honour of Privacy Awareness Week 2015 we caught up with Australian Privacy Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner to learn more about why we should think about privacy everyday and what his top privacy tips are. Check out the video and learn more about how you can control your privacy on Facebook with our Privacy Basics: https://www.facebook.com/about/basics #2015PAW

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For Privacy Awareness Week 2015, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (New Zealand) shared the New Zealand Privacy Commissioner's top privacy tip. Check out this short video to see what it is. #2015PAW

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Atlas and LiveRail are Facebook companies that help advertisers and publishers show relevant ads on websites across the internet and in apps on your phone. Today we're updating their privacy policies to reflect recently announced new features of these services and to make the policies easier to understand.


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