Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has pledged to start a “new chapter” for the social network as he unveiled the company’s plans to improve privacy. The social media site’s founder said “the future is private” as he announced the platform will redesign several areas of its business to make communicating between users more secure. But I'm committed to doing this well and starting a new chapter for our company“Over time, I believe that a private social platform will be even more important to our lives than our digital town squares,” Mr Zuckerberg said on stage at the company’s F8 developer conference. The social network is also to begin developing its services around six new core principles: private interactions, encryption, reducing permeance, safety, inter-operability and secure data storage. The social network has more than 2.3 billion monthly active users.

Source: Irish Examiner April 30, 2019 17:48 UTC