With numerous applications available online to serve different purposes, it could become hectic to remember login credentials for all of them. Since not a handful require registration to access their services, you should give away your PII details to go through.
Understanding this issue, Facebook and a few other platforms have issued APIs for developers to integrate their login pages with the required PII shared by Facebook. To access these services, click “Login with Facebook” when signing up for a new platform.
What happens behind the scenes is that Facebook shares are limited. Still, identifiable information about you, like your name, birth date, gender, etc., which you accept sharing with third-party sites when using Facebook! Thus, you give away permission to let such third-party apps use your data as per their terms.
While this removes the hassle of filling out registration forms for all services and remembering them, it also sometimes creates a risk of sharing and using your data for the wrong purposes. In the past, we heard that Facebook is sharing more data than allowed to apps. Thus, if you want to revoke these permissions, here’s how;
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How to Revoke Third-Party Apps Access from Facebook Account?
- Go to Facebook and open Settings & Privacy.
- Now, navigate to Settings and the Apps and Websites section and Preferences.
- Now, open the Apps, Websites, and Games section to see all the services for which you’ve agreed to share your data from Facebook. They’ll be listed with Active and Expired tags, representing the data sharing policy relations with them.
- Please tap on the desired application to Remove them from the list, thus revoking the permission to share the personal data.
Afterward, you can remove any third-party app accessing data through your Facebook account. Follow up the above steps and easily revoke third-party app access. If you face any problems, you can comment down below.
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