WEBVTT - Clear Out Old Apps With Access To Your Facebook Data

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<v Speaker 1>A Facebook privacy checkup. I'm Rich Demiro. This is Rich

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<v Speaker 1>on Tech Daily. So no doubt you've heard all about

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<v Speaker 1>the recent Facebook news and you know that your information

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<v Speaker 1>on there is being shared in a lot of different ways.

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<v Speaker 1>So now's a good time to do a little privacy

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<v Speaker 1>checkup on the social media site because you want to

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<v Speaker 1>see which apps can still access your personal information, including likes, photos,

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<v Speaker 1>and potentially your friend list. And even more so, you

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<v Speaker 1>heard what happened. A single Facebook app was able to

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<v Speaker 1>siphon off information about millions of users. Now, for starters,

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<v Speaker 1>Facebook has clamped down a little bit. It no longer

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<v Speaker 1>allows apps to reach us deep into your friend's information.

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<v Speaker 1>You can share all of your information, including your likes,

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<v Speaker 1>your friend list, all that good stuff, but they can't

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<v Speaker 1>really get all of your friend's stuff as well. So

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<v Speaker 1>that's a good thing, but it might still have people

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<v Speaker 1>on edge. So now's a good time to take a

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<v Speaker 1>look at all the apps that can actually access your data.

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<v Speaker 1>So what are these apps? Well, these are any apps

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<v Speaker 1>that you've actually clicked that log in with Facebook button

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<v Speaker 1>on the website. So let's say you go to a

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<v Speaker 1>new site, like you know, like a food delivery site,

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<v Speaker 1>you go there, it says, hey, log in with Facebook.

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<v Speaker 1>It's much simpler because you don't have to create a

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<v Speaker 1>new username and password. I never recommend that you do that.

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<v Speaker 1>This is for any website that you go to that

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<v Speaker 1>says log in with Facebook. It's very convenient for you

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<v Speaker 1>to log in with Facebook because you don't have to

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<v Speaker 1>come up with that new username and password. But for

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<v Speaker 1>security reasons, it is not a good thing to have

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<v Speaker 1>those linked. You always want to create a separate log

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<v Speaker 1>in for every website that you go to. So that's

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<v Speaker 1>number one, so stop doing that. Number two. Basically, these

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<v Speaker 1>apps that get access to your Facebook profile, how do

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<v Speaker 1>they do that. Well, let's say you're surfing Facebook and

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<v Speaker 1>you come across a quiz, a personality quiz, and you

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<v Speaker 1>click the quiz. Next thing you know, it says you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it says some sort of Facebook button. You press that,

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<v Speaker 1>and what that's doing is it's actually logging you in

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<v Speaker 1>with your face Book account. So you don't even realize

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<v Speaker 1>half the time that these apps are immediately going to

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<v Speaker 1>work and sort of collecting all of your personal information.

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<v Speaker 1>So while it looks like a quiz on the outside,

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<v Speaker 1>what the app is really doing is trying to collect

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<v Speaker 1>as much data as possible on as many users as possible.

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<v Speaker 1>So they're just harvesting information basically, So you want to

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<v Speaker 1>stop doing that. Number one. Number two. Once you've done

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<v Speaker 1>the damage, you can go back and see a list

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<v Speaker 1>of all of the apps that you've authorized over the years.

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<v Speaker 1>And if you haven't taken a look at this list

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<v Speaker 1>in a while, it may surprise you because even when

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<v Speaker 1>you click out of that personality quiz, next thing you know,

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<v Speaker 1>it is still taking your information for months or years

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<v Speaker 1>after that. One thing these apps used to really do

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<v Speaker 1>a lot is post to your page on your behalf.

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<v Speaker 1>So that's the other permission that you really want to

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<v Speaker 1>be on the lookout for when you're surfing through Facebook,

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<v Speaker 1>and anytime an app requests permission to post on your behalf,

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<v Speaker 1>you want to say no. That is the number two thing,

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<v Speaker 1>all right. So how do you get rid of all

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<v Speaker 1>these lingering apps that have access to your information? Well,

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<v Speaker 1>if you're on a desktop computer, you want to look

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<v Speaker 1>for the little down arrow next to the question mark,

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<v Speaker 1>which is usually in the upper right hand corner of

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<v Speaker 1>your screen. Then on the menu click settings. Okay, Now,

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<v Speaker 1>from here you're going to look on your left hand

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<v Speaker 1>side of the screen and click where it says apps.

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<v Speaker 1>Once you click that, you should see a big box

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<v Speaker 1>in the middle of your screen that says logged in

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<v Speaker 1>with Facebook. Here you're going to see a list of

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<v Speaker 1>all kinds of apps, some good, some bad. Look for

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<v Speaker 1>anything that you don't recognize or that you don't use anymore.

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<v Speaker 1>Go through this list one by one and really be

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<v Speaker 1>critical here. If you don't need it, get rid of it.

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<v Speaker 1>You can always reactivate it later. Once you see something

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<v Speaker 1>you don't like, hover over the name and a little

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<v Speaker 1>pencil and an X icon should appear. Click the X

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<v Speaker 1>for any app that you want to remove, and just

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<v Speaker 1>keep doing this until you've cleared up the entire list.

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<v Speaker 1>You don't have to get rid of everything. If there's

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<v Speaker 1>stuff that you use, then leave it there. But if

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<v Speaker 1>there's stuff that you don't recognize, definitely get rid of it,

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<v Speaker 1>and the next time you need it you can always

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<v Speaker 1>relog in. Now. I know a lot of you are

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<v Speaker 1>doing this from your mobile phone, so on Android and

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<v Speaker 1>iOS it's pretty much the same process just looks a

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<v Speaker 1>little bit different. But on Android and iOS you want

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<v Speaker 1>to look for the three little menu bars. Some people

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<v Speaker 1>call this a Hamburger menu, but it's right next to

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<v Speaker 1>your notification. So if you look for your notifications inside

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<v Speaker 1>the Facebook app, it's right next to it. So on Android,

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<v Speaker 1>this is in the upper right hand corner of your screen.

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<v Speaker 1>On iOS it's in the lower right hand corner. And

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<v Speaker 1>then the process is pretty much the same. You tap

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<v Speaker 1>that menu bar, scroll until you see settings. Tap there,

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<v Speaker 1>choose account Settings. Now choose apps, and then tap the

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<v Speaker 1>section where it says logged in with Facebook. And again,

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<v Speaker 1>go through this list and look for any app, website,

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<v Speaker 1>or service you don't use or you don't recognize. And

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<v Speaker 1>then if you want to get rid of one, there's

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<v Speaker 1>not going to be a little X. You have to

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<v Speaker 1>tap it and then scroll all the way down and

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<v Speaker 1>click remove app. And you can do this as many

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<v Speaker 1>times as necessary. Now, one more thing you can do

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<v Speaker 1>if you're just curious about all this kind of stuff,

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<v Speaker 1>is you can tap on any of these apps or

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<v Speaker 1>services and kind of see what they have access to.

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<v Speaker 1>And it's really fascinating because you see that some of

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<v Speaker 1>them say we have access to your personal information, your

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<v Speaker 1>email address, your like list, your photos, your list of friends.

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<v Speaker 1>I mean, it's really crazy the information that is floating

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<v Speaker 1>around out there on Facebook. Now, I'm not going to

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<v Speaker 1>say Facebook is evil. I'm just not because Facebook has

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<v Speaker 1>connected people in amazing ways. I just think that you

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<v Speaker 1>have to be very cognizant about the information that you're

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<v Speaker 1>sharing on this social media platform. Just imagine that pretty

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<v Speaker 1>much anything that you share could be public in one

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<v Speaker 1>way or another. Let's look at the most basic way

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<v Speaker 1>something that's private could be shared publicly, and that's by

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<v Speaker 1>someone taking a picture of it. So let's say I'm

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<v Speaker 1>friends with someone on Facebook. Privately, I say something private

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<v Speaker 1>to them. A friend is looking over their shoulder as

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<v Speaker 1>they read my message or my post, and they take

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<v Speaker 1>a snapshot of it. Next thing you know, they share

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<v Speaker 1>that snapshot in a public way. Well, now your private

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<v Speaker 1>information has just gone public in the simplest way possible.

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<v Speaker 1>And I'm not saying that's right, but you just have

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<v Speaker 1>to think about it. Nothing is truly private when it's

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<v Speaker 1>in print, when it's posted online, it just isn't. So

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<v Speaker 1>if you want the full directions on this, I know

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<v Speaker 1>it's a lot, just go to my website rich on

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<v Speaker 1>tech dot TV. I've got this all written out. It's

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<v Speaker 1>something very important you should do and help the friends

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<v Speaker 1>in your life that are a little less tech savvy

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<v Speaker 1>to do this as well. Thanks so much for listening.

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<v Speaker 1>Please rate and review this podcast in the Apple Podcasts

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<v Speaker 1>app that way more people discover it. I'm rich damiro

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<v Speaker 1>Rich on tech dot tv. Thanks for listening. Talk to

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<v Speaker 1>you real soon.