In a bid to ensure users are more aware of privacy settings, Facebook has started rolling out its Privacy Checkup feature, allowing users to review and control content posted on the social networking platform.
According to Paddy Underwood, Facebook's product manager, Privacy Checkup allows users to see which apps are in use as well as the privacy of key pieces of information on profiles. "Although people can find it any time from privacy shortcuts, we've begun suggesting it to people when they visit news feed."
Facebook says users logging in over the coming days will see the option to take Privacy Checkup and will be prompted to click "Let's Do It!" for configuration. They will then be able to define the people that can access certain information, as well as set parameters for apps that are used.
Future settings can be changed by clicking the security icon on the top panel. "It's part of an ongoing effort to put more control in people's hands, at the moment they need it. Our first Privacy Checkup helped people posting publicly make sure they were sharing with the right audience," adds Underwood.
He says the new feature has redesigned and simplified audience selectors across Facebook on desktop and mobile, enabling them to tailor the audience that can see posts.
"There's more work for us to do here. We'll be listening closely to people's feedback about the new Checkup, improving it over time and thinking of new ways we can help everybody on Facebook share exactly what they want with who they want."
Privacy Checkup forms part of the social network's push to bolster its security layout. In May, Japanese-based technology firm Trend Micro announced a partnership with Facebook to integrate its anti-malware tool HouseCall into the platform.
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