How to stop third-party apps from using your Facebook data and protect your privacyFacebook lets third-party apps abuse your private, personal data and the private, personal data of your friends. To stop it, you have to remove those apps from Facebook.
Facebook's Single Sign On service makes logging in and creating accounts for apps, games, and services easy. But when you use Facebook to log in, Facebook gives those apps access to your data — a lot of your data.
Worse, Facebook can give those apps access to the data of your friends, even if those friends haven't downloaded the app or consented in any way.
How to stop your friends' Facebook apps from collecting your data
There are a number of ways to reduce the amount of data you share with Facebook — including providing fake information in your profile, changing profile settings so that certain information displays only to you, and stopping apps from collecting your data entirely.
But one of the best ways to ensure that you aren't sharing anything is to check your third-party app list and...
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How to stop third-party apps from using your Facebook data and protect your privacy
