Facebook Adds Bulk Removal Tool

[engine]

More innovations from Facebook over the privacy issues stemming from the Cambridge Analytica blow up, and this time Facebook appears to have added a bulk removal tool to make it easier for users to disconnect third party apps.
[techcrunch.com...]
[developers.facebook.com...]

[tangor]

When fighting to recover the consumers' confidence it's not only OK to diss a few hundred apps, it is down right necessary! :)

[engine]

I suspect that part of the problem is people forget they've made the connection many years later. This tool should help greatly, if only I could find it. ;)

[keyplyr]

When I was going through all the back corridors and turning things off & removing content prior to deleting my business page, I saw connected apps I had never heard of. I'm positive I never specifically allowed these apps access to my account.

[tangor]

Probably not, but some where in your friends, family, or contacts someone ELSE did ... and that's the insidious part: a third party friend of your's (not YOU, any one on FB) is subject to the same thing. According to MZ any way they can link people together that's a good thing and damn the privacy.

[engine]

I too found connected apps i'd never heard of, and it makes me wonder how they actually got there.
It's a walled garden, but a strange one.
I dread to think how some people's accounts look, especially those that click on just about everything.

I highly recommend anyone go and look at that settings page.

[not2easy]

After that announcement yesterday, they also posted up a summary of the changes made to restrict various ways that users data was being accessed. They list a summary for each of the several ways that data had been available - quite a long list: [newsroom.fb.com...]

Additional changes:

The gritty details: "This morning we removed 70 Facebook and 65 Instagram accounts — as well as 138 Facebook Pages — that were controlled by the Russia-based Internet Research Agency (IRA)," Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Facebook, wrote in a post.

Facebook also announced that to keep up with new changes they will be posting changes on FB Developers Blog: [developers.facebook.com...]

[keyplyr]

Well just today, after I had unconnected all apps, a new one connected itself to my personal FB account, calling itself the Animated Gif App.

So far I see no way of unconnecting it. It now displays in all comment fields, trying to get me to accidently click it.

I'm now thinking it just might be best to also remove my personal FB account and be done with it.