Facebook allows users to vote on changes to 'privacy policies'

Washington, June 2 (ANI): Facebook is letting its nearly 1 billion users to vote on changes in its privacy policy of the website, beginning on Friday.

This is the second time Facebook is letting users vote on policy changes, the first time being in 2009 when the firm was a much smaller, privately held company with about 200 million users.

The vote is over updates the company announced in May, a week before its initial public offering.

According to News24, the changes include new sections explaining how it uses people's information and will also open up the possibility for Facebook to start showing people ads on outside websites, targeting the pitches to interests and hobbies that users express on the social network site.

Facebook, in its blog post, confirmed that it is reviewing the voting process, which will be done by its website's users. (ANI)