Facebook Grants Personal Privacy Options with Anonymous Login

When you download a new app or try to sign-up on any random website, you see a Facebook login option that allows you to login using your Facebook username/password. Once you sign in, there’s usually a pop-up box that asks if you demands you to allow the app to access your personal info, photos, interests, etc. Well, the Facebook team have created a way to bypass all of that.

The new “anonymous login” allows Facebook members to sign in without exposing their personal information and identities.

“By giving people more power and control, they’re going to trust more apps,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the company’s annual F8 developers conference in San Francisco.

In addition, the company has also created a way for users to select what third party apps see. Meaning, if you log-in through the third party app (of which you will still have this option), there will appear a checklist for you to chose which personal information the app can have access to. You may want to allow the app to access only your photos. Well, you can select “Photos” and deselect everything else.

“We know some people are scared of pressing this blue button,” Zuckerberg said pointing at the Facebook login button. “We want to do more to put control and power back in people’s hands.”

This feature will be ready for use in several months.