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Facebook has revamped its ‘Access Your Information’ tool to better break down and explain its data usage practices. Prior to the change, Facebook had two categories to explain its data practices: ‘Your Information’ and ‘Information About You.’ The social media giant has now broken these two categories into eight sections. The eight categories include: Your Activity Across Facebook, Friends and Followers, Preferences, Personal Information, Logged Information, Ads In...

Facebook has launched an updated version of its Access Your Information tool, which aims to provide more transparency around the data that Facebook collects, and how it can be used to target you with ads.  The refresh is likely a means for Facebook to get ahead of Apples coming IDFA update, which will better inform iOS users, via direct pop-up notifications, as to the data being collected by each app they use. Though thats not exactly how Facebook is framing it. As explained by Facebook: "W...

Users can choose between 8 categories (up from 2), and search functionality was added

Facebook has started rolling out a new look for its Access Your Information tool, featuring eight specific categories of data. The redesign is meant to make the tool easier to navigate.