Weekend Herald

Enhance your privacy

-

Settings (Desktop) Click at the right of the top blue bar of any Facebook page and choose ‘settings’.

Click apps. Every app listed under the heading “log in with Facebook” has access to your data, which you can change by altering the permission­s. You can also delete an app completely, though this doesn’t delete data the app developers may already have about you.

your informatio­n

Now click on Ads. You will see a “your informatio­n” bar which can be unfurled to show “about you” and “your categories”.

about you

Toggle every profile field in

“about you” to off where you don’t want to receive targeted advertisin­g in those fields.

your categories

Now click on “Your categories”. This is based on your friends list, jobs and education informatio­n and location info, which Facebook uses to add you to categories for targeted advertisin­g. You can manually delete the categories one by one.

advertisin­g free

Below the “your informatio­n” bar is the ad setting bar where you can opt out of being shown advertisin­g by certain parties by clicking “no”.

your account

Finally, go back to settings and click the privacy and timeline and tagging tabs in settings and check your account is as private as you’d like it to be.

 ?? Computer Altered Image ?? Mark Zuckerberg has fielded criticism over Facebook’s mishandlin­g of user data.
Computer Altered Image Mark Zuckerberg has fielded criticism over Facebook’s mishandlin­g of user data.
 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from New Zealand