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I tried out the download tool. It's basically things that the user posted directly. They did have FB messenger conversation logs in their too. It doesn't inc

I tried out the download tool. It's basically things that the user posted directly. They did have FB messenger conversation logs in their too. It doesn't include any likes, comments, attention metrics, or clicks to external links. It doesn't seem like it includes everything they have.

toufka 9y ago
After watching a few of these hearings, you start to realize that there are very careful interpretations of otherwise common language in use here to obfuscate and avoid. In this case, Facebook 'lets a user download all of [their data]'. Where [their data] is any input a user provided - text, photos, messages, etc. It seems that Facebook considers fingerprints, links, and any other meta-data a user creates or uploads, not the user's data, but FB's data. And that [what they call FB's data] is not available to the user.