This means Facebook – VG

Now you get more control over the information and which ads hit you.

1. January introduces Facebook several changes to its terms of use and guidelines. The purpose of the changes, according to the website will be making it easier for users to know how Facebook collects and uses information.

To get the new update behaves.

Controlled information

– Facebook has received feedback that there is too much information to take in the guidelines. Therefore they make it easier for members to be aware of how Facebook can check information and can make informed choices, says Facebooks spokesperson Nordic Frida Löwengren.

In addition, users gain better control over ads they see when they are online social media, according Facebooks own write about the update.

But the top of a yellow field with small print print Facebook that:

“By using the services our after 1 January 2015, you agree to our updated terms and guidelines for data and cookies, and you also agree to see improved ads based on apps and websites you use. “

– Do not be fooled

According to the company made changes to enable users to gain better control over their own information, and understand how Facebook works. Director of Inspectorate Bjorn Erik Thon warns against exaggerating the positive consequences of policies.

– It is positive that Facebook gives users more control over their information flow. But we must not let ourselves be fooled, for although we can control much even there the more we do not have control over, says Thon VG.

He points including how Facebook collects information about members even when they are offline service – and of non-members.

– Many people are well aware that it collected information when uploading a picture to Facebook, where it is logged time, which place and when image file was created. Fewer are well aware that once you have logged out of Facebook, then continue the monitoring, he said.

– Improves service

In Facebooks guidelines are inter alia, that the company uses cookies when you log off, partly in order to “generate insights about the people who interact with our services and the sites of our advertisers and partners.”

Facebook also uses cookies if you do not have an account, but have visited facebook.com.

– The aim was has and will always be to create a service that is best for those who use Facebook, Löwengren.