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Facebook simplifies privacy features

Tackling a complaint that has bedeviled it for years, Facebook on Tuesday announced simplified privacy settings.

The easier-to-use settings will be prominent whenever a user posts a comment, photo or shares their location on the popular social-networking service. Previously, those settings were buried on a back page that many users never saw or used.

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