Facebook recommends that 2 billion users re-check privacy settings

Developing stronger privacy protections for users is one of Facebook's main goals over the next decade. This task became even more urgent after a series of major scandals related to personal privacy that seriously damaged the company's reputation.

In this context, to celebrate the International Data Security Day, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced plans to send detailed notifications to more than 2 billion Facebook users on social media innovations. control the data they will have in the near future, and suggest users to check their privacy settings to keep track of changes. This prompt will show up in your News Feed in the next few weeks.

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Privacy checker tool:

Facebook's newly updated privacy checker tool helps you improve your account security and control, limit who can see what you share, and how your information is used. .

Tools that work outside of Facebook:

Late last year, Facebook announced a new tool that allows you to view and control your activities outside of Facebook, and is now available to all Facebook users. Specifically, the tool will allow you to check the summary of applications and websites that send information related to your activity to Facebook, and you can also delete this information.

Third party login warning:

The Facebook Login feature allows you to use your Facebook account to log in to third-party applications and services. In this case, Facebook will send a warning every time you use Facebook Login to log into applications of a non-Facebook provider, helping you track details of how your account is being used but how, and can adjust account settings options to suit the actual needs.

Despite the 'historic' privacy scandals, billions of dollars in punishments, and trivia on the sidelines, 2010 is still considered the decade of Facebook as one of the tech companies. The world's largest scale, holding the most popular services and applications on the planet.