Facebook's new privacy controls

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Under fire for its privacy policies, Facebook is implementing new changes to make it easier for users to set their privacy levels.

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The new set of changes was announced by Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg in a post on the official Facebook blog.

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Facebook has built a simpler control that allows users to set who can access the content they have posted on the social networking website. The settings on this control will apply for new products that Facebook launches in the future. Facebook's older granular controls will continue to exist.

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The basic information that Facebook makes available about users to everyone has also been reduced. Users can control who all can see their friends and pages. These fields no longer need to be public. But Facebook recommends users to keep the basic information open to everyone, to make it easier for people to discover them.

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Facebook has also made it simpler to control access of information by websites and applications.