Do this one thing to protect your personal data on Facebook, like, right now

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Yes, bad things happen to your personal data on Facebook. And its CEO’s hot, trashy mess strategy of damage control appears to be little more than throwing ideas against the wall to see what sticks. (And nothing sticks.)

So you’re angry, nay, seething with fury at Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg and Cambridge Analytica, and you’ve had enough, and you want to do — I don’t know, something. The Tesla guy is telling you to #deletefacebook. Is it time for you to bin your Facebook account for good?

OK, but what if Facebook is how you remember people’s birthdays? What if Facebook is how you keep in touch with everyone? What if (gulp) you actually like Facebook, and you just want it to stop shedding your personal data left right and center like an alopecic, uncontrollable dachshund?

Fine. Keep your Facebook. Just do this.

You should remove permissions from third-party apps, and here’s why:

Here’s the whole Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data scandal in a nutshell.

An organization created a Facebook personality quiz app.

Hundreds of thousands of users took the test, and gave the app access to their Facebook profile data — and their friends’ data too, until the app gathered the data of around 87 million users (the number keeps being revised upwards)

The app makers gave this data to Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy agency, which then used it to target specific Facebook users with ads to influence their vote.

Most of those 87 million users would have had no idea their data was harvested and used in this way, since they never even took the original Facebook test — a friend of theirs did!

-more-

https://www.avg.com/en/signal/how-to-seal-your-facebook-data-from-third-party-apps?et_cid=126026&et_rid=38177322&ecid=con_oo_pc_paac_all_all_2018_q2_bojj_news04&mailing=con_oo_pc_paac_all_all_2018_q2_bojj_news04&utm_medium=email&utm_source=sfmc&utm_campaign=con_oo_pc_paac_all_all_2018_q2_bojj_news04&utm_content=

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Done! And thank you.

[Yonnie3]

3. I never gave them permissions.

Denying permissions seemed like the right thing to do at the time. I was doing it for individual aps as they requested access and then discovered the option to do a blanket denial.

I wanted FB to share pictures of gigs and compare notes about various venues as well as keep in touch with family and friends. You don't need aps to do that.

[Kilgore]

4. No need

As of today, most of my family has deleted their accounts. I never had one.