# Delete Facebook: social network users are furious because of 50 data leakage million profiles 

After it became clear that the British analytical company Cambridge Analytica had access to the personal information of millions of Facebook users, many suspected that the social network did not protect this information well enough, and thought about deleting their account.

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In trends Twitter the hashtag came out #DeleteFacebook, writes CNN.

"If you are angry at what you did Facebook with our data then just #deletefacebook. Remember, we are not the customers, we are the product,” one Twitter user wrote.

Removal FacebookOf course, this is the simplest and most effective option, but there are other ways to protect your information in a social network.

Here is all you need to know about how to better control the information you share on Facebook.

How to prevent Facebook from sharing your data

You may be surprised by the number of services such as Airbnb or Venmoin which you registered through the social network for many years. This is due to the fact that these services simplify logging in when using Facebook, and do not require the creation of a separate username and password.

And users often don’t understand what kind of personal data these third-party applications access when they access them. Facebook.

In order to check the number of applications that you have logged in through the social network, go to the “Applications” page in the “Settings” menu in Facebook. There you can choose which services you want to delete or you can disable them all using the plugin “Edit ” ("Edit").

If you remove applications from this list, you will no longer be able to log in using your account. Facebook. Instead, you will need to subscribe to this app directly by creating a unique username and password.

Remember that applications that you have already installed may still store the information you received even after turning them off in Facebook. You will need to contact them separately and ask to delete this data.

Another thing you may not know about: people in Facebookwho can see your information may carry it with them to the applications they access, in particular games. By going to Settings> Apps> Other Apps, uncheck the boxes next to items of your personal information that you don't want these apps to have access to, such as your date of birth, hometown, political preferences, etc. P.

How to remove or deactivate Facebook

Another way to protect your personal data is to permanently delete your social media account.

В Facebook there is a special web-pagethat guides you through the process of completely deleting a page. But after that you will not be able to restore your account or access its contents if you suddenly change your mind.

The process of clearing all data associated with you may take some time - up to 90 days from the start of the deletion process. This is due to the fact that in Facebook The backup system is active, and when deleting a page, the social network should delete your data from all the places where it is stored.

However, it is not clear whether the third-party applications that you used will still have access to your data after you permanently delete your account.

Members Facebook can also temporarily disable their account if they want to access it again over time. The deactivation option can be found in the Settings menu under Account Management> Edit.

Turning off will make publications on your pages and photos invisible, but messages that you sent to other users will be available to them.

If you are afraid of losing the content you published in Facebook over the years, such as photos or notes, you can save it through Settings> General> Load a copy of data from Facebook».

Recall Facebook blocked the company Cambridge Analytica because she collected user data in violation of social network rules.

Cambridge Analytica analyzes data in social networks to develop strategic communications during election campaigns, including, possibly, for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

According to the Facebook, in 2015, the Russian-speaking psychology professor at the University of Cambridge, Alexander Kogan, through the application he created,This is your digital life"On the social network platform, which was supposed to be a psychological portrait of the user, transferred data on 270 to thousands of users Facebook third parties, among which was Cambridge Analytica.

Read more about this scam in our material.As a scientist from Russia, stole and sold the data of millions of Facebook users".

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