Guide to Stopping Facebook from Sharing Your Data

Guide to Stopping Facebook from
Sharing Your Data

Guide to Stopping Facebook from
Sharing Your Data
• Recently happened data-mining case of Cambridge Analytica
has highlighted the issue of privacy breaching. The Facebook
(FB) allows you to use the applications and websites and other
services integrated with FB. FB has been sharing your private
messages with particular parties provided that your FB profile
is linked with this app. You can get rid of the third parties as
they gather your private information.

• Here are some following steps to block the other companies from getting your personal
details and protect your FB account from privacy breaching.
• Let’s get ready to understand the way out:
• 1. Launch the FB page and look at the list of applications that your profile has been linked
with it. When you doubt on the credibility of any application on FB, then you should
revoke it as soon as possible.
• 2. For this, press “View and edit” in the box of application for checking its permissions,
along with the option of editing.
• 3. Examine the block next to an application and press “Remove” to halt an application
from linking with your FB account.
• 4. Press “Remove” to detach the application from your FB account and examine the box
tick if you desire to remove the application based content that particular app posted in
your FB account.
• 5. You have done the removal of an application by pressing “Done”.
• Here are some prevention control measures to keep in mind:

1. Employ Incognito and privatebrowsing
mode
• It is wisely to access FB site through Incognito mode of Google Chrome or
private navigation mode. Through this way, your private information will
be less likely to be tracked and delivered to FB itself. You can do this on
Chrome on the computer by pressing Shift+Ctrl+N on the keyboard. FB
released the latest extension known as Facebook Container Extension that
by default launch the FB site in a private browsing window. When you are
active on FB and press on the Facebook unrelated link, then that URL
would launch in the same tab.

2. Log out the FB account while not
working on it
• When you remain logged into FB on your system, then FB can trail your footprints
across the site despite being inactive on your FB account. FB may deliver the details
on your onscreen activities and happenings to the third parties.
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• 3. Employ a tracker blocking device
• If you desire to be logged in on your system and want to bypass the repeatedly
inserting complex passwords, then you can do this by Tracker Blockers. By the help of
Tracker Blocker, you can remain under the FB authentication process for signing in,
but you will switch the FB’s tracking arms. It is here noted that these Tracker Blocker
services don’t protect you from FB’s eyes until you are logged into the system.

• 4. Pull out of FB social media networking site by API sharing
• You can consider this measure if you have to be in contact with close friends
and others on FB and not using other apps. For doing this, you have to
pursue the given steps:
• • Open “Apps, Websites and Games” page on FB and hit “Edit” box under
this.
• • Press “Turn Off”. Now all the services linked with your FB will be
detached from your FB account. It is noted that this measure doesn’t
remove your personal data from those apps or games, hence you have to
delete them manually.
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• 5. Remove FB-owned applications from your device
• It is weird to sound but the apps like FB, Messengers, Instagram should be
uninstalled from your device as they have much access into your personal
information along with your private photos. FB itself claims that FB app can
do anything that you will do with this app.

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Source: Guide to Stopping Facebook