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So I downloaded my facebook data a few days ago and there were no phone nrs in there, no call history, actually much less of everything than I thought they'd ha
by roel_v 9y ago
So I downloaded my facebook data a few days ago and there were no phone nrs in there, no call history, actually much less of everything than I thought they'd have. Are they lying to me or does this depend on other factors?
- ubernostrum 9y agoThe reports going around mostly stem from people who used the Facebook app on older versions of Android. A combination of people not understanding what Facebook would do with their data, and poor design in the Android permission system, granted access to call and message logs, which is how Facebook got them.
- WA 9y agoI’d argue the data arcchive one can download are incomplete. One, it’s missing Likes. Second, I never put my phone number in Facebook, but I know they have it, because at one time, it was pre-filled in the enable account recovery by phone-dialog. So what you can export isn’t the full story. The question however is: how do you prove that and really ask for ALL data they have on you?
- iaml 9y agoAre you sure it's not your browser auto-fill?
- robryan 9y agoOr just harvested out of a friends contacts who has the phone number and email address.
- WA 9y agoExactly. My point is: FB has way more data about me than the download archive of my data contains/suggests.
- WA 9y agoYes, I’m sure, because I deactivated that and because they’ve shown me 2-3 different numbers over time for whatever reason.
- kevin_b_er 9y agoBecause Facebook doesn't give you what they really know. The download-your-data feature for a time showed the truth, in 2013: http://www.zdnet.com/article/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-are-frightening-dossiers-on-everyone/ http://www.zdnet.com/article/firm-facebooks-shadow-profiles-... So we may presume FB, especially in the US with little-to-no privacy laws against corporations, won't tell you what the really know.