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How to stop 100s of Facebook apps giving away your PRIVATE data with one easy trick

MORE than 50 million Facebook users have had their personal data harvested to help create political propaganda – so you need to wise up about social network security. Here’s a quick guide to checking what apps can see your Facebook info, how to stop them, and why it’s important. The good news is that in April, Facebook made it much easier for you to kill these rogue apps in one go. In March, it was revealed that a personality quiz called ‘thisisyourdigitallife’ harvested data about 270,000 Facebook users who gave answers – and 50 million of their Facebook friends. It shone a light on the amount of data Facebook holds on us, and the risks of giving apps access to your information. In this case, research firm Cambridge Analytica supposedly used the info to help get US President Donald Trump elected, and even to convince people that Brexit was a good idea – all through propaganda. It’s prompted some users to delete Facebook altogether. But if you want to keep Facebook, you need to check which apps currently have access to your information. It’s easy enough – use the following link to see which apps you’re logged in on using… Read full this story

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