A Few Tips On Escaping The Facebook Ecosystem And Keeping Some Personal Privacy.

This appeared a few days ago:How to protect your privacySocial media users are rushing to lock down their privacy settings. The Australian12:00AM March 22, 2018Chris Griffith It’s time to thoroughly check the data you entrust to Facebook and, through it, to connected apps. Whenever we open an app using our Facebook credentials, there is the likelihood we have shared our Facebook personal information with the app’s developer. Personal data can flow the other way to o, from apps we have interacted with into Facebook. The scariest part is when you have nothing to do with the data flow — when you are the friend of someone who on Facebook loves quizzes, or those mad graphics apps that construct a photo of you at 90, or nine months old. That app may glean your personal information simply because your friend has authorised the app to access their friends’ data. Now let’s address this state of ­affairs. In the Facebook smartphone app, press the three parallel lines icon, select Settings... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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