If you’ve ever wanted more control over the data Facebook collects about you, then you can pretend to have it, just as Facebook is pretending it’s giving that control to you. Facebook announced that it let you decouple all the data it gathers from your off-Facebook internet browsing habits from your profile, not that it’ll stop collecting that data. It’s just that the two separate piles of data Facebook gets will not be connected, which is all the control over your data that Facebook is ready to relinquish.
