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Facebook and privacy aren\u2019t exactly synonymous with each other. When Mark Zuckerberg first burst onto the scene out of his Harvard dorm room he quickly declared personal privacy to be dead. Since then he\u2019s waged a long, slow, and hard war on the things we hold dearly and, more importantly, privately to ourselves. He knows everything about us, and even knows plenty about people who don\u2019t even use Facebook.<\/p>\n
This has worked out well for the Zuck and his company as they\u2019ve been raking in the cash at an incredible rate. At the same time though, Facebook and Zuckerberg are steeped in controversy<\/a> and the social media giant seems to be stumbling from one privacy-related crisis to another. We don\u2019t need to get into Cambridge Analytica when a record $5 billion fine is so fresh in everybody\u2019s minds<\/a>.<\/p>\n Facebook deliberately shared your data with 60 companies \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n Facebook banned \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n Facebook suspends over 200 apps in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n \r\n Facebook deletes over 200 accounts and pages linked to Russian troll farm \u25ba<\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/a>\r\n <\/div>\r\n<\/div><\/p>\n It could be that these seemingly never-ending scandals are behind Facebook\u2019s latest moves to beef up the privacy settings for Facebook groups. Let\u2019s take a look.<\/p>\n A recent Facebook blog post announced some changes to Group Privacy settings<\/a>. The idea behind the changes is to make it much easier to control who sees what is going on in the groups you\u2019re an admin of. You could see this a tacit admission that the old system was deliberately designed to be too complicated, but let\u2019s not go there.<\/p>\n The post reads, \u201cWith two clear options, this new privacy model is much more intuitive. Public groups allow anyone to see who\u2019s in the group and everything that\u2019s shared there. With private groups, only members can see who else is in the group and what they\u2019ve posted.\u201d This means that if you post anything in a private group, only the registered members of the group will be able to see it. There is another setting, however, that Facebook has added.<\/p>\n\r\n\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n \r\n \r\n <\/div>\r\n <\/div>\r\n \r\n Facebook Group privacy settings are now much clearer and easier to control<\/h2>\n
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