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.
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.
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