Facebook flips on privacy in wake of data scandal

Park boost for wildlife

EXPECT to find extra wildlife around Tallebudgera in the coming years after a new boardwalk was revealed.

A 120m long boardwalk was opened by Mayor Tom Tate yesterday within Schuster Park Natural Area and features artificial tree hollows which will shelter wildlife in the future.

The park is part of the city’s commitment to seeing 51 per cent of the city covered by native vegetation by 2020. SHAKEN by the worldwide backlash to its data-harvesting scandal, Facebook has revealed it will help users delete their information from the social network, including phone call logs and photographs, in a major revamp of its privacy settings.

The redesigned menus, to be rolled out in “coming weeks,” will stop short of spelling out what information Facebook is actually collecting from its users, however, and will come as chief executive Mark Zuckerberg testifies before US Congress about the Cambridge Analytica scandal that saw the personal details of 50 million unwitting Facebook users sold and used in political campaigns.

Facebook chief privacy officer Erin Egan said the upcoming changes to its settings had been in development for some time. .