How To Limit the Amount of Data You Share on Facebook

With revelations emerging since last Friday that political data company Cambridge Analytica obtained private info from more than 50 million Facebook accounts beginning in 2014 and later used it to boost the Trump presidential campaign, Facebook's data collection and use has again come under scrutiny. For many users, it's been an abrupt wakeup call about how much data they've been sharing with the company and the third-party apps that it hosts. Cambridge Analytica, for example, reportedly had access to users' locations, "likes," and other personal details and used it to develop psychographic profiles of voters' behavioral traits. The recent news should give users pause about the privacy configurations of their own accounts. If you are one such user, here's a quick tutorial on how to minimize the amount of data available on your Facebook account.