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Facebook users to see, control personal data taken from other websites

Tue, 20th Aug 2019 16:30

Aug 20 (Reuters) - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it istweaking its policies to allow users to see and control the datathat other websites and apps share with the social network inaid of better targetting advertising.

The company defines the system for users directlycontrolling such data, for example where a clothing websiteshares information with Facebook on browsing activity of a user,as "Off-Facebook Activity".

"We are starting by gradually making Off-Facebook Activityavailable to people in Ireland, South Korea and Spain," Facebookexecutives said in a blog post https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2019/08/off-facebook-activity.(Reporting by Arjun Panchadar in Bengaluru; editing by PatrickGraham)

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