Facebook's New Privacy Policy: Underwhelming Changes

In response to concerns by Canada's privacy commissioner, Facebook said that it will roll out some new privacy features. But, despite some sweeping language about empowering users, the changes overall appear fairly minor. Among other tweaks, the social networking site will require third-party developers to give users more information about the type of data that's being collected. In the future, applications will have to "specify the categories of information they wish to access" -- such as birthdays, political views, etc. -- and obtain express consent for each category.