How to protect your data on Facebook?

A few weeks ago, there was a very big problem with Facebook, which is that important and sensitive data has been leaked to more than 50 million users of the Facebook platform. This was in order to benefit from this data by a marketing company and to follow many of the marketing behaviors of users in order to benefit Of those data in the US elections, but what we care users how it happened to leak data and whether we can also be exposed to the same for such a breakthrough or not and if so how can we protect our data all this will be addressed in this subject, so follow me from In order to protect your privacy.

To answer the first question of how this leakage of data or how some want to call it a breach of the privacy of users subject was simply through a marketing company competent in the exploration of data launched the application of puzzles on the Facebook platform and many users of Facebook experience this application by linking it As usual, like most users around the world, the application asked for permission to obtain most or not all the information related to each account. This permission was approved without reading. Therefore, the company was able to obtain many data such as a list of friends and pages. With her eyes, photos and videos most interested to those users and other data that should not be looked at by anyone.

The answer to the second question is whether we can also be exposed to such a hack or not. The answer is definitely yes. You can be exposed to such hacking as long as you continue to use applications such as puzzles, recognize your profile or know who visited your profile and other applications that can Be a trap for Facebook accounts so you must be very careful before approving the powers granted to those applications.

The third part is the most important is how we can protect our data on Facebook at the beginning will remind you of the need to choose a strong password and long and also to activate the feature of 2-step verification then you will open your account on Facebook through a computer and then To access the settings by clicking on the arrow on the top left if you use Facebook in Arabic and the right side if you cancel the English then you will choose applications App Now you will notice the emergence of all applications that you have already used through the account On Facebook.

You will now delete all applications that you do not know or do not trust. Also before you delete them, you will be able to view the data that you access. You can modify the privacy settings for each application through the pen button next to each application and after you select the information you want to hide. Then clicking on the Save button and you can delete those applications by selecting applications through the arrow next to each application then you will notice the existence of a button removed and after clicking it will suggest that you delete all publications that you posted to your account by those applications and so you may Stretched out Get rid of one of the things that can be a source of data theft in the future and also raise the degree of protection for your account to maintain it.