How do you protect your data following the ongoing revelations that
Facebook can’t, or
won’t?
Well, first you do fill-in-the-blank, and then you wait for an hour, because Facebook’s sure to squirt out another data privacy overhaul in this
Cambridge Analytica,
Cubeyou, data spillage-induced fix-it time.
Not to complain about the data privacy overhauls, mind you. It’s just hard to keep up.
Here’s the latest box of muffins, fresh as of mid-April. Note that much of this is copy-pasted from our
20 March set of protect-your-data muffins, at least one of which was rendered stale a week later.
One of the changes was to do away with the Apps Others Use privacy option, which formerly allowed users to control how they share their data with third-party apps.
Up until
Facebook’s privacy settings update late last month, Apps Others Use was located under the Apps Setting page and gave you a slew of data categories to control what types of your data people could bring with them when they used apps, games and websites. Here’s what it looked like:
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