Facebook says GDPR means ‘new privacy experiences for everyone’
Facebook will ask all its users to make decisions about how they want advertising on the platform personalized to their interests, and whether to continue sharing religious, relationship or political information on their profiles.
The company said it is making the changes first in Europe, in order to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect on May 25.
Users will also be invited to authorize face recognition, which the company uses outside the EU to suggest the names of friends to tag in photos and videos.
FacebookFacebook will ask users worldwide to allow it to use face recognition technology to identify them in photos and videos they and others upload.
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