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MySpace also plans to simplify privacy settings

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President Mike Jones has explained in a letter to his users the data protection provisions. The manager announced it at a simpler version of the settings, which would be in the next few weeks.

The new system offers, according to Jones, the already known three settings, “public”, “private”, and “just friends”. Users can complete each section of their profile to determine who is allowed to see it. In future it will be possible to change the privacy settings with one mouse click for the entire profile. Jones also said that users would have the option currently used “just friends”, make the changeover to the new system, no changes.

“Even if it goes on MySpace about discovering things, to present themselves and to share information, we understand that people want to have the opportunity to share their data only to a select group of friends available,” Jones said. MySpace users to respect the wishes of his privacy, and you’ll never urge members to certain privacy settings. He also promised, MySpace users will never use its data without their knowledge for other purposes.

Earlier this week, had already announced Facebook to simplify its privacy settings. The social network was responding to persistent criticism of European data protection experts. With the recently introduced changes to the privacy settings of the social network had originally automatically classified as private data made publicly available. EU privacy advocates have described the approach as “unacceptable”.

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