Internet security and privacy is an issue that worries many users. People who then are the first to accept any pop-up window that appears on their mobile or computer, or who even log in “like crazy” with their Facebook account. Today we explain how you can find out which applications and services have access to our Facebook account and how we can revoke it .
Privacy on Facebook and its security flaws
Surely you have seen yourself in the situation of accessing a website, service or application and that, when generating your user to log in, it has offered to use your Facebook account among its options. It seems something simple and without much importance, but what does it mean that we log in this way?
When we use our user account as a method of identification anywhere, we are giving said platform certain accesses and information about our account : names of our contacts, the possibility of sending notifications or even publishing on our own profile. All this is usually camouflaged with the surnames of “we will use your information to improve your user experience”, accompanied by an invitation to consult its legal bases and privacy policy. Information that very few end up consulting.
So, if at any time you have logged into so many services with your account that you no longer even remember the number or their names, we strongly encourage you to take a look at this list as shown below.
Delete the apps with access to your account from the mobile
In the event that you want to identify which are these applications or services from a mobile phone , you must follow the following steps:
- Access your account from the Facebook app.
- Click on the menu of the three stripes in the lower bar.
- From here, scroll down until you find the “Settings and privacy” section and, in the drop-down menu, access the settings menu.
- In this menu you will have to locate the section “Applications and we sites” and click on it.
- Click on the option “Session started with Facebook”.
Right in this menu is where we can see all those apps, services and web pages that in one way or another have access to certain information on our account. There are 3 types of situation for such permits:
- Assets : they refer to the most recent accesses. You can see when they were added to this list in the information that Facebook provides us under their name.
- Expired : those permits that, even having been accepted, have not been used for more than 90 days.
- Deleted : the apps and services that appear here are those from which we have deleted our account, or, if we revoke access from Facebook itself.
If you want to delete any service from the active or expired lists, you just have to select it with the button to the left of its name and then click on the blue button that marks “Delete”. They will automatically become part of the eliminated group.
Delete the applications with access to your account from the PC
On the contrary, if you want to eliminate these accesses from your computer’s browser, you must carry out the following steps:
- Access your Facebook account from the browser.
- Click on the “Account” button on the top bar, that is, the last one to the right which is indicated by a down arrow.
- Click on “Settings and privacy” and, after that, access the “Settings” section.
- From this new window you will have to click on “Applications and websites” in the left sidebar.
Here, as we saw in the process to be carried out from our smartphone, we will have the different types of states of said permits. To revoke any of them you just have to select it in the button that is to the right of the name, and then click on “delete”.
Improve the security of your data on Facebook
To improve the privacy of your data within Facebook, one of the most interesting settings is to limit access to these third-party apps and services .
Whether you access from your mobile phone or from your PC, within the same section of “Applications and websites” you will find an option called “Applications, websites and games”, yes, it is very unintuitive . By activating this section we can limit the possibility of accessing any app, website or game with our Facebook account. This way we will avoid that by mistake any other one sneaks into the list of services with access to the information in our profile.
