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Is this really surprising to anyone? I'm surprised that this information as available to download, but I'm guessing that's not because Facebook wants to provide it (there's probably laws in New Zealand which force this?).
I'm curious how to get your shadow profile's data if you don't have an account.
I find this very weird. Did anyone here faced the same issue ?
After reading this, I tried to download my data from Facebook. However, avast antivirus on my machine detected a Trojan in the zip file from Facebook with my data and blocked the download with this message: "We've safely aborted connection on bigzipfiles.facebook.com because it was infected with Java:Malware-gen[Trj]" I find this very weird. Did anyone here faced the same issue ?
I hope people start to understand how deep state systems facebook and google are..
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If I'm understanding the other comments in the thread then the behavior is based on how Android worked in that older version... e.g. if (on) { /* execute code for said feature */ } Which implies: " In the version of Android mentioned the on flag is on when you install. It was a feature of that version of Android to turn it on... how can FB know you didn't want it on?"
> It was a feature of that version of Android to turn it on... how can FB know you didn't want it on?" What user wants that "feature" on? (or at least to send the data to Facebook for storage)
If you scroll through the replies, he does admit to opting into a feature to integrate SMS and phone with Messenger [1]. No doubt there's a permissions/version and facebook-overstepping-ethics conversation to have here (as always), but this isn't as major as the title implies. It does seem like Facebook continuing using permissions after he opted-out. [1] https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976825435026735104
The SMS integration was disabled after a few weeks of usage, the app was too buggy.
After reading this, I tried to download my data from Facebook. However, avast antivirus on my machine detected a Trojan in the zip file from Facebook with my data and blocked the download with this message: "We've safely aborted connection on bigzipfiles.facebook.com because it was infected with Java:Malware-gen[Trj]" I find this very weird. Did anyone here faced the same issue ?
If you scroll through the replies, he does admit to opting into a feature to integrate SMS and phone with Messenger [1]. No doubt there's a permissions/version and facebook-overstepping-ethics conversation to have here (as always), but this isn't as major as the title implies. It does seem like Facebook continuing using permissions after he opted-out. [1] https://twitter.com/dylanmckaynz/status/976825435026735104
Is this really surprising to anyone? I'm surprised that this information as available to download, but I'm guessing that's not because Facebook wants to provide it (there's probably laws in New Zealand which force this?).
You probably have the GDPR to thank for this. I'm curious how to get your shadow profile's data if you don't have an account.
After reading this, I tried to download my data from Facebook. However, avast antivirus on my machine detected a Trojan in the zip file from Facebook with my data and blocked the download with this message: "We've safely aborted connection on bigzipfiles.facebook.com because it was infected with Java:Malware-gen[Trj]" I find this very weird. Did anyone here faced the same issue ?
Unless Facebook is serving up malware in its zip files (possible, but unlikely IMO), you may have other malware on your machine that could be piggybacking off the connection to download more junk. I'd run a full scan with Malwarebytes to be sure.