Facebook introduces new tools to let people delete and see their data as scandal continues

Facebook will give people new ways of seeing and deleting the data it collects on its users, it has said. The latest development comes as the social network continues to try and stop the damage from the Cambridge Analytica scandal, through which it became clear that the site was collecting many of its users' most sensitive and personal information. Now it says it will add new features in the next few weeks that will change the site's terms of service and its data policy so that people can see how their data is being collected. It will also give people new ways of deleting what has been collected and stopping further information being harvested, it claimed. Those tools will allow people to delete data selectively, as well as removing their account entirely, Facebook's announcement appeared to suggest. "Some people want to delete things they've shared in the past, while others are just curious about the information Facebook has," it wrote.