Facebook’s Zuckerberg admits mistakes, promises privacy fixes.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg admits that Facebook “missed the mark” with its recent privacy changes, promising that simpler privacy controls are on the way. In an op-ed piece published in the Washington Post Monday, Zuckerberg loosely outlines the company’s plan to make things easier on users and promises that Facebook is taking the recent criticism about its decisions to heart.
Zuckerberg’s piece is a bit heavy on the PR-speak, but it does admit that Facebook may have made incorrect assumptions about what users wanted when it came to privacy controls. He says that the company tried to move quickly to keep up with Facebook’s meteoric growth and assumed users wanted many granular controls over different aspects of their profiles. This was apparently not the case, and Facebook is now hoping to roll out new changes to accommodate user feedback.
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