Facebook announced on Wednesday that it will redesign its privacy settings tools to give more control to users or their information on the social media website.
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The updates include improved access to Facebook's user settings and tools to search, delete, and delete personal data stored by Facebook.

Meanwhile, a new privacy shortcut menu will allow users to quickly increase account security, manage who can see their information and control the ads.



"We have heard a lot of privacy and other important tools to inform people," said Erin Egan, chief privacy officer, and Ashlie Beringer, associate general counsel, in a blog post.

"We are taking additional steps in controlling their privacy," they confirmed.

The new features are the subject of bitter criticism after being revealed millions of years ago: Facebook had not been in stores for some time.

Earlier this month, whistleblower Christopher Wylie revealed that Cambridge had created psychological profiles of 50 million Facebook users through a personality prediction app.

The application was downloaded by 270,000 people, but also collected data from their friends without their consent - as was possible under the rules of Facebook at the time.

Egan and Beringer also announced updates to Facebook's terms of use and data policy.