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You Should Really Look At Your Facebook Third-Party App Settings Right Now

According to reports by the New York Times and the Observer, the research firm Cambridge Analytica procured personal data from as many as 50 million Facebook users, and used that data as part of its work on President Trump’s 2016 campaign. Though Facebook claims Cambridge Analytica and its associates broke the rules in retaining and using this data, this wasn’t a breach as we typically think of them: The Times reported that 270,000 of those users willingly gave over their info when they signed up for a personality quiz app.

Developers can request to see your relationship status, education history, and religious and political beliefs, among many other data points, but only if you allow them. For example, I had unknowingly shared all of my Facebook photos and photos tagged of me with TripAdvisor. A hiking app called AllTrails could see all of the timeline posts, while Waze had access to my custom friend lists (including one named “Frenemies”). In any case, now would be a good time to revisit the third-party apps you’ve granted permission to access your Facebook data and review — and maybe revoke — some of the info you’re sharing.

Strangely, you won’t find Facebook’s third-party app permissions in privacy settings. You’ll need to go to the App Settings page (which can be accessed directly here).

Alternatively, on the desktop interface, click the downward arrow in the top-right corner and select Settings. Then select Apps from the menu. On the apps page, you’ll see all the apps where you’ve logged into Facebook. On mobile, tap the menu bar (bottom-right for iOS, top-right for Android), and select Settings > Account Settings > Apps > Logged in with Facebook.

Remove third-party apps you no longer use by hovering over the icon and clicking the "X."

You can also adjust the amount of information you hand over to an app by clicking the edit button.

You can limit an app’s permissions without fully revoking it. Click on the edit button (pencil icon), next to the remove button, to view each app’s individual settings, where you can see all of the data that’s visible to the app. You can revoke specific permissions by deselecting the checkmark next to each data point.

Revoking those permissions doesn’t mean you’ve removed that data from the third-party app’s servers.

Third-party apps may have already stored data on you, and you’ll need to contact the app developer to delete that information.

You can do this on Facebook in the app’s individual settings page. On the bottom right-hand corner of the settings window, click on Report App. Then select, I want to send my own message to the developer. There, you can request that they remove any information they have stored. It’s not a guarantee, however, that they will respect your request.

Look at the app’s privacy policy to see more details about how that app is using your data.

In the same row of links in tiny font next to Report App, click on App Privacy Policy, which will take you to the app’s website. There will be a lot of legal mumbo jumbo in here, so just search (command + F) for “Facebook” or “social networks” to go straight to the section that covers integration with social networks.

Another thing to look at on Facebook’s app settings page: Apps Others Use.

This module is near the bottom of the page, underneath the third-party app icons. Click Edit to control what your friends on Facebook can bring with them when they enable third-party apps. Deselect the personal info you don’t want to share.

Your friends could be sharing your religious and political views or what you’re interested in, without your knowledge (or theirs).

If you want to download a copy of all your data, that’s an option, too.

You can download all of your Facebook data — including posts, photos, videos, messages, chats, and your “about” section — by going to Settings and in General, clicking Download a copy of your Facebook data.

The ultimate takeaway is: Review app permissions, not just on Facebook, but for all social media sites, and look closely at what information you’re allowing third-party apps to see.

Facebook's privacy policy changes from time to time (as former Facebook executive Alex Stamos pointed out in now-deleted tweets), so re-check your third-party app settings regularly, to make sure you're only sharing information what you want to be sharing. The apps you connected with Facebook before 2014, for example, might have access to an insane amount of Facebook data, because that was the default permissions setting at that time.

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Here's how to see what you log into using Facebook

Facebook's corporate headquarters in Menlo Park, California. Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images

Last week, 90 million people had to log back into Facebook following a cyberattack.

Maybe you were one of them, and maybe you even took a minute to change your password. But this data breach goes way beyond Facebook, and it’s worth wading into the site’s thicket of privacy settings to see where else you might have been compromised.

The issue here is Facebook Login, a service that lets you access other accounts around the web without managing another password. If you’re logged in with Facebook, you’re logged in anywhere else. Attackers were exploiting a security flaw that gave them full access to 50 million Facebook accounts, meaning they could also get into connected food delivery apps, fitness trackers, ride-share services and much, much more, like this … Wi-Fi enabled sous-vide?

Facebook says there’s “no evidence” on its end that attackers improperly accessed any third-party apps, but the whole episode has inspired hand-wringing over just how much access we turn over to one service.

New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo, for one, has sworn off Facebook Login for good.

“Like a trusty superintendent in a Brooklyn walk-up, Facebook offered to carry keys for every lock online. The arrangement was convenient — the super was always right there, at the push of a button. It was also more secure than creating and remembering dozens of passwords for different sites,” he wrote. “But the extensive hack vaporizes those arguments. If the entity with which you trusted your keys loses your keys, you take your keys elsewhere.”

But do you know just how many of your keys Facebook has? It’s easy to find out if you know where to look. It’s a few menus deep in your settings, which you can find way at the bottom of the hamburger menu. These screenshots are from the iOS app, but the Android version is similar enough.

To see which apps you log into with Facebook, now or in the past, go to settings, then “apps and websites,“ then “logged in with Facebook.“

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From here, you can see all the apps you’ve logged into with Facebook, now or in the past. It’s especially useful to know about apps that have your credit card info. Messing with my Spotify playlists is one thing, but knowing that someone with access to my Facebook account could buy something on eBay is something else.

You can also see on this page what personal information each app gets from Facebook, like your profile picture and email address. You can also remove the login connection, but Facebook notes you’ll have to contact each company to ask them to delete that info. After you remove the login connection, you’ll probably have to reset your password on that service.

But if you’re not using Facebook to log into other apps, what should you use? Manjoo acknowledges that Facebook is better than simply using the same easy password for every site (guilty), and recommends a password manager with a strong master password. The Verge has a good guide.

But even if you do nothing else, you should still change your password. It can’t hurt.

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