It's not spring yet, but household time to secure your personal information, especially on Facebook and its various applications.
If you have vaguely heard of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), that you are surprised by the ads accompanying your consultations with the social network or if you are overwhelmed by the notifications of a game of poker discovered six years ago , take the time to follow these precautionary steps.
New year, new password
Changing your password takes about three minutes, and can prevent a headache if your account is hacked. Protecting personal data well starts with good IT hygiene. We therefore forget the password that a hacker could guess with the minimum of personal details.
We have compiled five tips to help you transition to a competition password here.
See what an outdoor app knows about you
It is often more comfortable to accept to connect to an application or website via Facebook Login rather than entering your email and / or creating a dedicated account on Airbnb, Uber or Tinder.
These permissions expire in time and therefore no longer have access to your profile information. But a quick look in your account settings allows an inventory. The most radical solution is to disable this practical option entirely.
Select the Applications and websites tab from the menu on the left. Active, expired, and deleted apps are in three different tabs.
The most important are Expired, because deleting them for good often involves getting rid of your account or recreating it by limiting potentially siphoned data. An important step to consider.
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Be careful however, as Facebook specifies: "It is possible that XXX may continue to access information that has been previously shared with the application, but it will no longer receive additional non-public information. "
So to completely erase the information already shared, you will need to contact each application publisher, as the law allows you.
Clean up advertisements
Facebook is free thanks to advertisements and its interactions with its partners. But the user often forgets or ignores that the advertisements that appear come from external sites.
Mark Zuckerberg's group calls it on their official blog “activity outside of Facebook” and has recently been showing more transparency towards advertisers.
It is possible to regain some control over this flow by looking in the Ads tab and accessing the Ads Settings. Removing the authorization of "Ads based on data from our partners" is enough to feel a little less hunted from site to site.
You can also check in passing the information on your profile (education, employer or romantic situation) that allows Facebook to "match" your profile with the best targeted advertising.
Finally, a (frightening) passage by Advertisers and companies shows that "advertisers have broadcast an advertisement in the past seven days using an imported list on Facebook containing your information (usually an email address or a telephone number)".
"Facebook matched the imported information to your profile, without revealing your identity to the advertiser," it said.
Block game notifications
Texas Hold'em Poker, Candy Crush or Farmville relaunch you every other day? There is a solution against that.
The preferences in Applications and websites are used to modify the "Notifications of games and applications" in a few clicks. This can sometimes be a real relief.
