Facebook tightens user info
Web 2.0
19 March 2008
Social network Facebook is changing its security settings to help protect its members' personal data.
It has standardised its privacy interface and added new privacy options, including "Friend of Friends", which allows users to share details.
"Users will also now have the ability to share and restrict information based on specific friends or friend lists," it announced.
Facebook's new chat system is due to launch soon and it will offer users the chance to delete their archived chats. However, should they not ask to, the information will be kept for 90 days.
Product manager Peter Deng said the Facebook chat user interface will appear at the bottom of the browser window.
"It's unobtrusive and there when you need it," CNet News reported him as saying.
Users of social networking sites have been warned to restrict the amount of personal information they post to public forums.
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