Facebook announced plans to strengthen user privacy controls over the next decade. This includes prompting nearly 2 billion users to review their privacy settings, launching a tool allowing users to see and clear their off-Facebook activity, and introducing alerts when users login to third-party apps with their Facebook account in order to provide more transparency and control over how user data is used. The company acknowledged it has significant work ahead to build stronger privacy protections for all Facebook users.

1. 28 January 2020
Facebook: Starting the Decade by Giving You More Control Over Your Privacy
One of our main goals for the next decade is to build much stronger privacy protections for everyone
on Facebook. We know we have a lot of work to do here, which is why this is such a priority for our
teams and for me personally. Since today is Data Privacy Day, I wanted to share some of the work
we’ve been doing to give you more control over your privacy – on and off Facebook.
Prompting People to Review Their Privacy Settings
Over the next few weeks we’ll show nearly 2 billion people around the world a prompt encouraging
them to review their privacy settings. The prompt will show up in your News Feed and direct you to
the Privacy Checkup tool, which we recently updated. This makes it even easier to adjust who can
see your posts and profile information, strengthen your account security by turning on login alerts,
and review the information you share with apps you’ve logged in to with Facebook.
Giving You More Control of Your Off-Facebook Activity
As of today, our Off-Facebook Activity tool is available to people on Facebook around the world.
Other businesses send us information about your activity on their sites and we use that information
to show you ads that are relevant to you. Now you can see a summary of that information and clear
it from your account if you want to. Off-Facebook Activity marks a new level of transparency and
control. We’ve been working on this for a while because we had to rebuild some of our systems to
make this possible.
Introducing Alerts for Third-Party Logins
Facebook Login lets you sign into other apps and services, like games and streaming platforms, using
your Facebook account. To help you keep track of your activity, we rolled out Login Notifications
earlier this month. These notifications alert you when you use Facebook Login to sign into third-
party apps to help you stay aware of how your account is being used and edit your settings.
You should be able to easily understand and manage your information, which is why strengthening
your privacy controls is so important. We’ll have more to share as we continue to make progress on
this important work in the decade ahead.
Please find the Facebook Newsroom announcement here https://about.fb.com/news/2020/01/data-
privacy-day-2020/
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