The co- founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg announced in a blog that Facebook would now be privacy friendly and people can communicate their intimate thoughts and pictures shielded by encryption in ways that Facebook itself cannot see.Critics are not convinced that Zuckerberg is committed to meaningful change. In the past Facebook had suffered privacy lapses that have amplified calls for regulations to make companies more accountable when they improperly expose their users information.
As part of an effort to make amends Zuckerberg plans to stitch together Messenger, WhatsApp and Instagram messaging services so that users would be able to contact each other across all the apps. Jen King the Director of Consumer Privacy at Stanford Law School Centre for Internet and Society said that while this could be great for one’s relationship with other people, it doesn’t do anything for one’s relationship with Facebook itself.
