Check out www.MyPermissions.org
If you have accounts with Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Dropbox or Instagram,
This will tell you which permissions you've granted to the various apps that run on each service. It's a simple site, but an important one given the problems that arise when apps (often malicious ones) have unfettered access to private information on your computer or mobile device after you click on the service icon in my permissions,
the site provides you with a link to revoke the access you've granted on that site, eliminating the hassle of navigating through the privacy settings on a service such as Facebook, which is historically difficult to keep abreast of.
With so many sites requesting so many different permissions, it's important to keep your defenses up when choosing to install service-based apps
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