Meta Adds New Personal Data Control Features to Its 'Accounts Center' Tool

Meta aims to simplify the management of personal data within its applications.
Meta Adds New Personal Data Control Features to Its 'Accounts Center' Tool

In further efforts to make its account management tools simpler, Meta today launches an update on its Accounts Center management platform that brings more of your Facebook and IG data options into the centralized control element.
Meta rolled out the new accounts center in January this year, integrating all the data control options for both Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger into one interface.

Now, it also includes personal data downloads, so you can download all the information that Meta has on you in one place.
Meta says:

Download Your Information and Access Your Information are now centralized in Accounts Center. You can now download your Facebook and Instagram information together and download all the photos you have ever posted on Facebook and on Instagram-all with one single click of a button, or if you prefer download your information separately from both Facebook and Instagram.

That should make it much easier for people to understand how to access these options, probably most of which are completely unknown, as they were long hidden within sub-categories of your app settings.

Meta is also expanding its "Activity Off-Meta Technologies" (previously known as off-Facebook activity) and "Transfer Your Information" features. These have so far only been available for Facebook, but you can now see them for your Instagram activity.
now you'll be able to easily access the information Meta has collected about you from other sites and apps, helping you manage how your information is being used in each app.
 
"Transfer Your information" meanwhile will enable you to transfer all of your Instagram photos and videos to other services, "making it much easier to share and save memories".

Not sure how many IG users would consider their uploads precious memories, but now you have a new, centralized control option to access and keep your photos off-platform, if you so choose.

As mentioned above, Meta's been working to make its centralized Accounts Center a more all-encompassing tool, providing an easier way to manage your Meta app settings and data, while also keeping its apps more inter-connected. Which also might assist Meta in the event it is ordered to break up its empire, as has been proposed in various antitrust proceedings. But really, the primary benefit is for users, in providing a single home for controlling your cross-platform settings.

Meta's Account Center is being updated with new changes starting today. Your Accounts Center can be found under the "Settings" menu on Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger.

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2024-11-04 13:16:57