Facebook - restricting access to your personal information

angelavdavis

Apparently, Facebook launch their personalization functionality today which makes your personal information available to other websites, if you want to read more, see:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/facebook-instant-personalization-launches-how-to-disable-it-and-why/8006?!!!!!nl.e550

[Deleted User]

More worryingly, it is turned on by default so many will be entirely unaware the feature even exists.

At the very bottom of the page, simply untick the box labeled Enable instant personalization on partner websites. This will instantly turn off partner websites accessing your data. If, however, the option is greyed out but still ticked, this means that Facebook has not yet activated instant personalization just yet. It takes time. Check back in a few hours, or the next day.

Not ticked for me.

Phantom_Flan_Flinger

This came up a couple of weeks back, but Facebook put it off because of user feedback.

Not active in mine yet though -

Enable instant personalisation on partner websites.
Note: instant personalisation is not yet available for you

Jakes-mate

angelavdavis wrote: »

Apparently, Facebook launch their personalization functionality today which makes your personal information available to other websites, if you want to read more, see:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/facebook-instant-personalization-launches-how-to-disable-it-and-why/8006?!!!!!nl.e550

Thanks for the link as it takes a bit of finding.

Mupette

This is scare tatics that has been seen on facebook for ages, it does make you check your settings, but it's an old thing

Syman

Mupette wrote: »

This is scare tatics that has been seen on facebook for ages, it does make you check your settings, but it's an old thing

not available to me to untick. but then i have nothing on my facebook account that is either private or a secret. so not particularly fussed.