Facebook
leads the social network
rules in accordance with the new legislation on confidentiality, which the European Union will adopt on May 25. The rules will soon spread to all 2 billion users.
Users in Europe will receive alerts this week asking whether they want to keep information such as political views or religion in their profiles and see the relevant advertisements. Partially, opportunities for teens under 16 to share information about themselves will be cut.
From May 2018, the law of the European Union on the protection of personal data - the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR -
will become mandatory in all countries of the European Union. Companies must ensure transparency of data use and be ready to transfer or destroy data of individuals. Penalties for non-compliance with the law reach 20 million euros or 4% of the company's annual global revenue and other sanctions that the EU member states will implement separately.
Almost all
Facebook entries in April of this year are about security and compliance with the new law. Specialists of the company explain what data the social network takes, even when you do not use it, what tools of privacy settings appear, promise a
reward for reports of hacks .
At the end of March, Facebook
published information about updating settings in order to make privacy settings more understandable and simple. If earlier in the mobile application, various settings were available on 20 different screens, now they are placed in one place.
The GDPR requires an agreement from parents or guardians for the use of social networks or other services for children aged 13–15 years. Facebook
writes that the company decided to go ahead and use additional polls. Every teenager will be able to choose which ads to watch: “Although the law does not require this, we will ask every teenager whether he wants to see ads based on data from partners and what personal information they want to keep in profiles.”
Regulation of Facebook activities will occur, including in the United States. In the first half of April, Mark Zuckerberg answered questions in the US Congress for two consecutive days for five hours. One of the main topics is data leakage of 87 million users. The data fell into the hands of Cambridge Analytica during the last US presidential elections. The former vice president of this company, Steve Bannon, led the campaign of Donald Trump. At a speech in Congress, Zuckerberg supported the idea of regulating social networks from the outside.
In Russia, with respect to Facebook will be
checked . According to the current legislation, the data of Russian citizens must be stored on the territory of the country, and the prohibited information must be promptly deleted. If the social network does not comply with the laws, it can be blocked
after Telegram .
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