Privacy issues: Here's how to delete your Facebook, Instagram profiles
You
may have decided enough is enough: It’s time to delete Facebook.
There
have been months — or is it years now? — of bad news about the social network.
In October, Facebook revealed that a security vulnerability exposed up to 50
million accounts to being hijacked by hackers. Through the vulnerability, a
hacker could take over your account — meaning anything you ever posted on
Facebook, or even apps that you connected with using your Facebook account,
could have been infiltrated.
“People’s
privacy
and security is incredibly important, and we’re sorry this happened,”
the company said at the time. “It’s why we took immediate action to secure
people’s accounts and fix the vulnerability.”
The
breach followed a scandal involving Cambridge Analytica, the voter-profiling
firm that got its hands on the private data belonging to millions of Facebook
users. More recently, The New York Times reported that Facebook gave other
technology companies more intrusive access to users’ personal data than it had
previously disclosed. Read
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