Privacy Control Over Each Of Your Old Profile Photos Now Available on Facebook

If you are an ambitious Facebook user you should know by now that facebook used to only let you set a single privacy setting for all your old profile photos, but now there’s a privacy widget on every past profile photo. Facebook says this “gives people more granular control” over photos you upload one at a time. More controls may translate into more willingness to upload photos.
Your current profile photo and cover photo are still public, though, so you might want to keep the beer and cleavage out of those.
All your other albums beyond Profile Photos and Mobile Uploads will only have a cross-album privacy setting that applies to every photo inside. The “Edit Album Privacy” button seen in the screenshot below was how the Profile Photos album previously functioned as well.

To make sure people undersand their new found control, Facebook will be doing some education in the form of sidebar ads explaining the change and leading to the Help Center
It’s a big day for Facebook photo privacy, considering this morning it confirmed with Ars Technica that after years of criticism from privacy groups and blog, its new server system completely erases photos users click the “delete” button on.
With these new controls, users may be more willing to share shots of themselves because they know they’ll always be able to control their visibility individually