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Speaker 1: Facebook cracks down on data abuse. I'm Rich Dmiro. This

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Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech Daily. So Facebook has spoken out

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Speaker 1: about the big breach of data and trust when it

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Speaker 1: comes to their users. CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a Facebook

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Speaker 1: post explaining how we got here, what happened, and what

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Speaker 1: Facebook is going to do in the future to prevent

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Speaker 1: any more abuse of data. So number one, the company

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Speaker 1: explained that they really changed the rules back in twenty

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Speaker 1: fourteen so that this sort of thing can't really happen anymore.

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Speaker 1: But they're going to clamp down even further. So let's

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Speaker 1: go back a little bit. When Facebook started. The whole

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Speaker 1: point of Facebook was that it was different. Not only

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Speaker 1: did they have all of your social data in there,

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Speaker 1: but third party apps could use your data to kind

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Speaker 1: of make those apps better. So if you have a

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Speaker 1: calendar app, it can populate that app with your friend's birthdays,

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Speaker 1: for example. But to do that, you had to log

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Speaker 1: in and give approval to saying hey, you can use

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Speaker 1: my information and all the information of my friends as well. Now,

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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, Facebook kind of changed that because they

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Speaker 1: saw that this thing was expanding in a big way

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Speaker 1: and they said, you know what, we need to make

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Speaker 1: more granular permissions for this kind of stuff. So if

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Speaker 1: it's a photo sharing app, we need to get specific

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Speaker 1: permission from you to access your photos. So they started

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Speaker 1: making things a little bit more siloed, so if an

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Speaker 1: app wanted access to your photos, they'd have to ask

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Speaker 1: for it. If they wanted access to your likes, they

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Speaker 1: would have to ask for it instead of just getting

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Speaker 1: everything all at once. Facebook says, even with all these changes,

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Speaker 1: they've still seen abuse of the platform and misuse of

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Speaker 1: people's data. So now they're going to make changes to

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Speaker 1: prevent further abuse. So here's all the changes they talk about.

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Speaker 1: Number One, they're reviewing their platform. They're going to investigate

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Speaker 1: all apps that had access to large amounts of information

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Speaker 1: before they changed things up in twenty fourteen. If they

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Speaker 1: find that developers misused any information, they're going to ban

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Speaker 1: them from making future apps, which is interesting. They're going

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Speaker 1: to also tell people about data misuse. So if Facebook

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Speaker 1: in its you know, analytics, figures out that some app

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Speaker 1: is misusing information, they're actually going to tell you users.

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Speaker 1: Facebook probably had an idea about all this stuff way

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Speaker 1: before we did, and that's because their computers are constantly

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Speaker 1: monitoring all this data that's being moved around. So moving forward,

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Speaker 1: if Facebook detects something like this and they remove an app,

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Speaker 1: they're actually going to tell everyone who use that app

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Speaker 1: about it. They're also going to turn off access for

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Speaker 1: unused apps. This is probably the best and biggest change

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Speaker 1: they're making. So let's say you take one of those

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Speaker 1: personality quizzes and then you forget about it, right, you

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Speaker 1: do the personality quiz or the celebrity lookalike quiz, and

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Speaker 1: you totally forget that you connected this to your Facebook account.

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Speaker 1: If you don't use an app within three months, they're

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Speaker 1: going to turn off that app's access to your information.

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Speaker 1: That is huge, and it won't affect things like if

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Speaker 1: you've connected to Netflix or a Pandora or something like that,

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Speaker 1: because you're logging in with that all the time, but

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Speaker 1: it will affect these kind of rogue apps that want

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Speaker 1: to get your information and for as long as possible,

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Speaker 1: so that's huge. Facebook is also changing the way Facebook

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Speaker 1: login works. So if you listen to this podcast before

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Speaker 1: you know that I said I don't really like using

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Speaker 1: Facebook to log into third party sites. So let's say

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Speaker 1: you sign up for something like Pandora and it says, hey,

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Speaker 1: use Facebook to log in. I like when you make

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Speaker 1: separate accounts for everything. That way things are less connected. Well,

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Speaker 1: Facebook says they are going to change log in so

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Speaker 1: that they're going to reduce the data and app can request.

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Speaker 1: So mainly apps only get your name, your profile photo,

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Speaker 1: and your email address, but if they want any other data,

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Speaker 1: they're going to have to specifically request it and get

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Speaker 1: approval for that. So instead of getting your data, birth,

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Speaker 1: your like list, your friends list, all that stuff, that

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Speaker 1: will take kind of a bigger level of approval. Also,

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Speaker 1: Facebook is now going to encourage people to manage the

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Speaker 1: apps that they use. So right now you can go

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Speaker 1: in and, like we've talked about, you can see all

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Speaker 1: the apps that are connected to your account, but actually

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Speaker 1: finding that list of apps was not very easy. So

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Speaker 1: Facebook is going to put a new tool right at

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Speaker 1: the top of people's news feeds that they can see

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Speaker 1: the apps that are connected and disconnect those apps very quickly.

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Speaker 1: There you have it, some of the changes Facebook is

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Speaker 1: making to crack down on abuse of its platform and

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Speaker 1: to better protect your privacy. If you want a link

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Speaker 1: to check out the third party apps that have access

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Speaker 1: to your Facebook data currently and instructions on how to

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Speaker 1: disconnect those go to my website Rich on tech dot

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Speaker 1: Rich jamiro Rich on tech dot tv. Talk to you

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