Besides clearing that history, users can also tell Facebook to stop adding data from their accounts by clicking "Manage Future Activity" and then toggling off the button next to "Future Off-Facebook Activity," according to the Washington Post. The tracker shows 180 days’ worth of data collected by Facebook. The Off-Facebook Activity tool now allows users to see a summary of that data and clear it from their accounts if they choose to, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in a January 2020 blog post. Businesses send Facebook information about a user’s activity on their websites, and Facebook uses that information to show relevant ads in their newsfeed. The tracker enables users to have more insight into how the company traces them online. It’s a tool offered to users, not an advertising tool itself. And it does not give Facebook the ability to track your bank account or email activity, as the post claims. It’s been available on the website for exactly one year. Technology news website Engadget found that iPhone owners were most affected by the glitch and that people using two-factor authentication were having the most trouble, as the SMS codes needed to log back in were taking a long time to reach users.įacebook confirmed that its "Off-Facebook Activity" tracker has nothing to do with the logout issues, and is not part of a new update. We’re sorry for the inconvenience," a Facebook company spokesperson told PolitiFact in an email. We investigated the issue and fixed it for everyone on January 23. "On January 22, a configuration change caused some people to be logged out of their Facebook accounts. The company confirmed the following morning that engineers had fixed the issue. 22, Facebook said it was looking into reports of people being logged out of their accounts, receiving a "session expired" notification before being prompted to log back in.
(Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) It isn’t accurate. The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. To turn it off go into your Facebook Settings, scroll down to OFF FACEBOOK ACTIVITY, then click CLEAR HISTORY then click MORE OPTIONS then MANAGE FUTURE ACTIVITY and turn off FUTURE ACTIVITY." They can now track ‘OFF FACEBOOK ACTIVITY,’ bank accounts, email, apps. "Want to know why? Facebook updated last night with a new feature. "Who got logged off Facebook last night?" a post shared Jan. Scores of Facebook users found themselves unexpectedly logged out of the social media app recently, causing confusion, with people frantically trying to remember their long-forgotten passwords.īut while Facebook says the glitch was due to a system change, posts on well, Facebook, pointed to a more insidious reason: