Facebook launches new tool for users to see data collected from other sites

Published August 21, 2019 6:32pm ET



Facebook launched a new tool designed to let users see and manage which apps and websites share data about their browsing habits and interactions with the social media giant.

The new tool, called “Off-Facebook Activity,” gives the company’s 2.4 billion monthly users access to a summary of the hundreds of apps and websites that send Facebook information about their activity. The platform’s users can also disconnect the information from their accounts and clear future activity harvested when users are not on Facebook.

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