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Facebook is storing an updated copy of your phone Contacts, nicknames included
- kp1 9y agoWhat do you think google has been doing for years.... And they do work closely with NSA.
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- mike_n 9y agoAnd probably your calendar events and who they're with and any associated info, etc... including any confidential corporate/health/other info oh, and so does any other app that has calendar permissions (uber, etc)
- anotheryou 9y agoIs there a way to download all the information FB stores about you? There surely is more than in the official download. You can't even see likes there, let alone shadow profiles, multi-accounts and whatnot. Does living in the EU help maybe?
- rameerez 9y agoYeah, I'm sure they're keeping A LOT of data. Metadata, search history, profiles browsing, app usage times and dates... Unfortunately there's no way to know exactly what data are they hiding, unless you're Zucks or something like that. As far as I know, living in the EU does help: my understanding is that within the EU, all your data belongs to you even if it's stored by Facebook; as opposed as the US, where Facebook is the rightful owner of the data you provide.
- anotheryou 9y agoI will try this for a bit more: http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_data_.html http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_... (but still no likes they say: (2nd paragraph) http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html ) Search history is indeed a nice example. It's so easy to prove (they autocomplete past searches, even if it's a long random string initially typed on another machine/browser)
- mindcrash 9y agoLiving in the EU does not help. In fact, this is the office responsible for overseeing data protection matters for all Silicon Valley companies operating across the entire EU: https://www.google.nl/maps/place/Office+of+the+Data+Protection+Commissioner/@53.1486055,-7.1831797,3a,75y,181.97h,99.09t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sXdpEt_QBMp4DIepvhGowrA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m8!1m2!2m1!1sdata+protection+ireland!3m4!1s0x485d750a389a3e3b:0xe721fa208ed2831!8m2!3d53.1485291!4d-7.1828865 https://www.google.nl/maps/place/Office+of+the+Data+Protecti... And now you also know why Silicon Valley likes to have their European headquarters in Ireland. It's not just because the beer is fantastic.
- rameerez 9y agoHey HN! Did I do something wrong? I got a Twitter notification that this reached the frontpage, went to check it and it did, had like 48 upvotes, checked it again a minute after that and it's now buried in "new" with 20 upvotes. First time at HN – sorry if I made some mistake
- DoreenMichele 9y agoThat sounds to me like it was probably submitted twice, one got upvoted and then flagged. As I understand it, you can't downvote posts. So a post should not drop from 48 points to 20.
- rameerez 9y agoMight be, but I've only seen my submission + I'm 100% sure I saw this precise post in the frontpage with 40+ upvotes :/
- DoreenMichele 9y agoThere is a search function at the bottom of the page. I will suggest you double check.
- Swizec 9y agoYou can flag posts. That counts as a downvote (or more). If I had to guess, I'd say the submission got heavily penalized for being trollbait. Either by the mods, or by the community.
- robinduckett 9y agoOnly if you authorized the Messenger app to take over your SMS app.
- sebazzz 9y agoI wonder if Facebook will be punished to set an example with the GPDR of the EU.