Facebook revamps ‘Access Your Information’ tool

Facebook has revamped its ‘Access Your Information’ tool to make it more “more usable and transparent” for users, the company has announced.

Launched in 2018, the Access Your Information tool is a central place for users to access their information on Facebook. It is available within the Privacy Shortcuts option on the Settings and Privacy menu.

The revamped tool now divides user data into eight categories instead of two broad categories of data in the previous version — Your Information and Information About You.

These eight categories include Your Activity Across Facebook, Friends and Followers, Preferences, Personal Information, Logged Information, Ads Information, Apps and Websites Off of Facebook and Security and Login Information.

“Each of these categories breaks down further into subcategories, so it should be much easier to navigate to the data type you’re interested in,” Facebook said in a blog post.

The social media major has also added search functionality…

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