DUBLIN (AFP) - Facebook has to better explain to users what happens to their personal data and give them more control, the data commissioner in Ireland, home to the website's international headquarters, said on Wednesday.
Facebook must work towards 'simpler explanations of its privacy policies (and) ... easier accessibility and prominence of these policies,' the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) said.
It called on the United States firm behind the popular website, which helps its some 800 million users worldwide keep in touch with friends and exchange information, to provide 'an enhanced ability for users to make their own informed choices.' The DPC report, compiled after a three-month 'audit' and available at www.dataprotection.ie/docs/Home/4.htm, also called on Facebook to allow users to delete permanently old messages, friend requests, pokes, tags and posts.
Facebook's indefinite retention of information of what adverts users had clicked on was also 'unacceptable,' it said. Facebook said in response it would 'move immediately to a two-year retention period.'
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