What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
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#2"But 'Download Your Data' hardly tells you everything Facebook knows about you. Among the information not included:
- information Facebook collects about your browsing history;
- information Facebook collects about the apps you visit and your activity within those apps;
- the advertisers who uploaded your contact information to Facebook more than two months earlier;
- ads that you interacted with more than two months prior.
Download Your Data is particularly spotty when it comes to the information Facebook taps to display ads."
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TL; DR When you get too close to their business model, Facebook clams up.
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#3.... is the groveling apology from Mark..
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#4I’m thinking, GDPR is not live yet. They might expand the type of data they export in a month.
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#5In case, anyone is wondering how to get to the "Your Categories" option on Facebook. Go to Settings -> Ads and the tab will appear.
I have always been paranoid about sharing information on social media. So, this section has only Facebook access information - 4G, Ipad etc. Couple of categories are even incorrect.
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#6This 'Download Your Data' tool is highlighted every few years when ire toward facebook is renewed, but while appealing it's never seemed more than table scraps to me looking at the data.
Even without looking, the idea that a data broker would just willingly give us all the information it has is unbelievable. The scale is so large, how would you even know?
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#7Not covered here: it does not really export your social graph. Just a list of names. No way to easily import that into contacts etc. This is making quitting Facebook time-consuming, but I'm getting there.
Similarly with birthdays, although it's quite easy to work around that via their calendar link.
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#8An important omission is the data that Facebook collected on you using browser fingerprinting.
Since a fingerprint is like a hash, it is theoretically impossible for Facebook to determine if the data really belongs to you, or to someone else who happened to have the same browser fingerprint.
This means that if Facebook is legally obliged to offer a complete user data download, then the practice of fingerprinting is illegal.
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#9This 'Download Your Data' tool is highlighted every few years when ire toward facebook is renewed, but while appealing it's never seemed more than table scraps to me looking at the data. Even without looking, the idea that a data broker would just willingly give us all the information it has is unbelievable. The scale is so large, how would you even know?
They don't have a choice under GDPR.
Re: What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
#10This 'Download Your Data' tool is highlighted every few years when ire toward facebook is renewed, but while appealing it's never seemed more than table scraps to me looking at the data. Even without looking, the idea that a data broker would just willingly give us all the information it has is unbelievable. The scale is so large, how would you even know?
They don't have a choice under GDPR.
To what extent will GDPR require them to include the information they have to serve and target you ads? Does anyone even know yet?