Facebook plans to streamline its

settings to give users more control over the information they share.In a blog post on Wednesday, chief privacy officer Chris Kelly said Facebook is in the process of simplifying and standardizing its privacy settings.

For Facebook users, this means revisiting previous privacy choices. Over the next few weeks, Facebook plans to make a Transition Tool available that will ask users to specify their desired level of information sharing. Previous privacy choices will carry over to the new privacy settings. Whether users will migrate toward more or less openness remains to be seen.

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