The desire to delete our Facebook account is becoming popular across different social networks. This is the reaction of users to recent media posts about how a certain analytics company bought personal data of 50 millions of Facebook users from one of the app developers, and then proceeded to use this information to influence elections and the outcomes of political campaigns.
Facebook accumulates an immense amount of information about people and gives third-party apps access to this information. Y, in fact, The developers of these applications can easily sell this data or use it in any other way that goes against their own policies.
The problem is that, even if you remove the Facebook app from your smartphone and never visit its website again, you will not be able to prevent analytics companies from collecting information about you or tracking your usage. Facebook is secretly present in numerous mobile apps, thanks to a product called Facebook Audience Network.
This product is an advertising network and a service to analyze apps. Developers register with Audience Network to monetize their apps through ads and analyze their users. In reality, it is Facebook that does the 'analyzing' part; in fact, you are sharing your data with the social media giant, even if you have never used it, simply by installing some other application and granting them permissions.
According to Facebook's privacy policy, it can collect and store data about users of its partners, even if those users have not registered an account on the social network.