Chapter 1. IS in Business{0}
In the article, Facebook Issues Privacy Upgrade, PC Magazine writer Chloe Albanesius, explains Facebook’s new changes to it’s privacy control settings. Facebook was becoming concerned about the difficulty users were having accessing their control settings. Though the security settings offered by Facebook were very good they had become extremely complicated. In the old system users had to scroll from various menus to adjust each sections privacy settings. On the new system users will be able to access their security settings for all sections on one continuous page. This action was put into effect by Facebook’s CPO, Chris Kelly, and according to early test it sounds positive.
Facebook will originally trial 40,000 users in the US and eventually expand to 80,000 globally. Facebook then will establish which one of its six functional tools will be used as the new method of selecting security settings. Another benefit to the changes is users will suffer no security losses from the new system.
The reason I choose this article was for how closely it related to the first chapter. This ties in perfectly for an example of what a CPO does for an online networking company. When I first encountered the title CPO, I was confused about what it really meant. After reading the text, I had a hard time distinguishing the difference between a CPO and a CSO. Now that I have gotten the chance to see how a CPO uses his authority I feel I have a better understanding of the certain roles in information technology.
Albanesius, Chloe. Facebook Issues Privacy Upgrade. PC Magazine. July 7 2009. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349615,00.asp