Facebook Updates 'Access Your Information' Tool for Data Management

[MacRumors]

Facebook is today rolling out an update for its "Access Your Information" tool to make it easier to use and to better explain how data is used, reports TechCrunch.

"Access Your Information" provides a detailed look at the information about you that's shared on Facebook. The updated version is organized into eight categories: Your Activity Across Facebook, Personal Information, Friends and Followers, Logged Information, Security and Login Information, Apps and Websites off of Facebook, Ads Information, and Preferences.

Inside of each category, information is organized into subcategories to make it easier to find the data that you're looking for, with the tool also able to be used to remove data.

Search functionality is now included so you can find something specific like "location," and there's more information on how Facebook uses data to personalize the Facebook experience.

As TechCrunch points out, the launch of the updated tool comes as Apple is requiring apps like Facebook to provide a detailed list of the personal data that's collected, and it has been released just ahead of when Apple will begin requiring Facebook and other apps to obtain express user permission before tracking them.

"Access Your Information" can be found in the Facebook iOS app by accessing the Settings & Privacy section, choosing Settings, and scrolling down to the "Access Your Information" setting. The feature will expand to the desktop in the future.

Article Link: Facebook Updates 'Access Your Information' Tool for Data Management

 

[Braderunner]

Step one: Admitting you have a problem.

 

[breather]

Needing a tool in order to explain why they take all your information isn't a good sign.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

Who uses Facebook in 2021. They don't care about PRIVACY and SECURITY at all.

 

[iGüey]

Apple should remove Facebook and WhatsApp from the App Store!

 

[asiga]

Why not just drop them from the App Store? It would be good for everybody (and for their users in the first place, even if they don't agree now).

 

[aesc80]

Who uses Facebook in 2021. They don't care about PRIVACY and SECURITY at all.

I totally wanna agree with you, but IG is also "Facebook". How else would we catch up with IG models and their "pic 'matches' the tagline" posts? #TheyMakeMoreThanMe

 

[centauratlas]

Facebook is a voluntary 1984esque tool that people have voluntarily signed up for. The authoritarians, whether fascist, socialist, communist or other totalitarian, love knowing everything about everyone. It gives them control, power and the ability to take a percentage off the top. Being able to shut dissent down and enforce an anti-liberty world view is key to their power.

Lack of privacy is all about them, not us.

 

[alpi123]

Who uses Facebook in 2021.

Uh, almost nobody, just shy of 2.7 billion people

 

[iBreatheApple]

Won’t this be harmful to small, local businesses?

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

I totally wanna agree with you, but IG is also "Facebook". How else would we catch up with IG models and their "pic 'matches' the tagline" posts? #TheyMakeMoreThanMe

IG is a different platform though. Yes, it's under Facebook but totally different platform

LOL at the #hashtag

 

[FourDegrees]

Would this have happened without Apple's requirements?

 

[iBreatheApple]

IG is a different platform though. Yes, it's under Facebook but totally different platform

LOL at the #hashtag

You’re thinking about it the wrong way. The issue is the privacy practices, data collection, and methodology is likely 100% identical. That’s the reason it’s important to compare them, not that they have differences as social media platforms to the end user.

 

[mattwolfmatt]

The moral of this story is:
Delete Facebook.

 

[dannyyankou]

If they need eight separate categories to explain why they need your data, they're collecting too much. They even have a search button at the top lol.

 

[macdos]

I fail to see what this has to do with Apple.

to /etc/hosts:
0.0.0.0 connect.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 staticxx.facebook.com

 

[Apple_Robert]

The purpose of the app is to make people feel better about exposing themselves and being abused by and through the app. Facebook: Where lies never sounded better. Come back and we promise not to hit you any more.

 

[Mike_Trivisonno]

Facebook needs a new art department.

 

[vicviper789]

The feature will be available on desktop soon? So I have to download the app just to change my settings?

 

[locovaca]

I fail to see what this has to do with Apple.

to /etc/hosts:
0.0.0.0 connect.facebook.com
0.0.0.0 staticxx.facebook.com

Not good enough. Use this in your PiHole:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/anudeepND/blacklist/master/facebook.txt

There’s unfortunately a lot more to block than just those two!

 

[AdamNC]

I deleted FB today. And several other social media accounts. Only ones I kept was Reddit and Discord.

 

[InGen]

Imagine a world where Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & TikTok didn’t exist.

 

[JM]

Exactly. Facebook shouldn't whine about being called out for data collection. They should explain what they collect, and why/how it is used...

...and then let people decide if they want to continue using Facebook or not.

*not sure if Facebook is explaining everything in this info page, but at least they are being transparent(-ish?)

 

[jimbobb24]

Goodbye facebook. You convinced me to leave you and WhatsApp. Too much tracking.

 

[larrylaffer]

How many times does it say "small business"?