Facebook finally clarifies its privacy policy

Published November 25, 2014 6:45pm ET



One of the many criticisms of Facebook is that it’s hard to know what happens to personal information once the social media service gets a hold of it. Facebook is finally addressing this long-standing problem with a revised privacy policy announced Tuesday.

The new rules go into effect Jan. 1, 2015, and while according to Facebook “nothing is changing” in terms of actual policy, the company is revising the language to make it more understandable. Although Facebook’s new privacy policy is by no means easy reading, the edits remove of much of the legal jargon present in past revisions.

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