Facebook Will Now Make It Easier To Delete Any Data You've Shared On The Platform

Thanks to all the flak it¡¯s received over the Cambridge Analytica data leak lately, Facebook is facing a serious crisis.

It needs to pull up its pants and be more transparent with users than it was ever prepared for, even offering them ways to escape its profit-making advertising, if it wants to gain back their trust.

Because of this, Facebook now says it will make it easier and more intuitive for users to change their privacy settings and delete data already shared with the company.

According to Facebook¡¯s chief privacy officer Erin Egan and deputy general counsel Ashlie Beringer, most of the security updates to do that have already been in the works for a while now. However, ¡°the events of the past several days underscore their importance,¡± the two wrote in a joint statement today.

The update will now allow users to access all their settings from a single place instead of having visit a number of different tabs. In the past, Facebook has had to redesign its privacy settings pages multiple times, in response to criticism from users that it was too complex to use.

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In this latest version, you¡¯ll supposedly be able to delete specific bits of information you¡¯ve shared, or posts you¡¯ve liked, and even block that data from advertisers.

Unfortunately, that won¡¯t allow you to delete any data you may have provided to third party apps on the platform over the years, no matter what it was used for. All that information you volunteered through games and quizzes is not even stored on Facebook¡¯s servers after all, but resides with the third party developers that built them.

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