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Privacy policies are rarely written for the majority of the people who actually use a given product or service, but Facebook wants to change that on its website after constant complaints about its own legal document. The website’s privacy team has taken on a new project with the goal of developing a privacy policy written for regular people, as opposed to for regulators and privacy advocates.

In this vein, the company came up with three basic principles based on feedback received from thousands of people as well as from our ongoing conversations with privacy experts, policy makers, and regulators from around the world:

1. It should be easy to understand, even when the concepts are complicated, or it is of no use to anyone.
2. It should be visual and interactive, because that’s the way people use the web today.
3. It should focus on the questions people who use Facebook are most likely to ask, because that makes it relevant.

The resulting new privacy policy is available at facebook.com/about/privacy in draft form (if you’d like to compare against it, the current one is available at facebook.com/policy.php). Facebook wants you to answer the following three questions. Is this easier to understand than our current policy? What do you like about it? What do you think could be better?

ZDnet has the details HERE!