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Protect your Facebook account: How to secure your data

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Add secure password and mobile number
Remove old devices and apps
Collapse Facebook search
Stay in control of your history
Let friends help you
Do not appear in advertisements

Would you like to protect your Facebook profile from hackers or change your privacy settings? Then check out this article..

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Your Facebook profile should be protected from possible misuse. Hackers could spread viruses or spam through your Facebook profile. In addition, professional burglar gangs have specialized in determining locations and places of residence from social media data in order to then break into the empty apartment. We'll show you how to make things as difficult as possible for criminals. You will also receive a few tips on how you can better protect your privacy. The links in this article will take you to the relevant Facebook pages, where you can make the changes directly. To do this, you have to be logged into Facebook.

Add secure password and mobile number

Remove old devices and apps

  • Log out : You may have used your Facebook account on a friend's computer, at work or even on a public PC. There is then the possibility that you are still logged into Facebook and that unauthorized persons can log in. Here you can see the devices on which you are permanently logged into Facebook. You can log them out individually or remove them all at once under " Log out of all sessions ".
  • Stop apps from accessing your account information : If you log into apps like Spotify or Twitter with your Facebook account, you allow them access to your Facebook account information. In this overview you can see which apps you have given access to your account or your account information. You can remove access there again. Detailed instructions on how to delete app shortcuts from Facebook can be found here.

Collapse Facebook search

Your privacy page should now look like this:

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Stay in control of your history

For good protection, your timeline and flag settings should look like this (the old Facebook design above, the new Facebook design below):

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Let friends help you

If you have problems logging in, you can select 3 to 5 friends here , who will receive a code in this case. You can use these codes to regain access to your Facebook account. Just click the link above and then follow the instructions.

Do not appear in advertisements

If your account remains in the default settings, you automatically consent to the use of your profile picture for Facebook advertisements ("Sponsored Stories"). For example, if you like a product, your Facebook contacts may see it. Click here and then go to " Nobody " to revoke your consent. As the portal t3n reported in 2014, the so-called "Sponsored Stories" no longer exist on Facebook.

In this article we will explain to you how you can remove even more traces of data from Facebook..


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