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By contrast, I found that my Facebook dump was extremely devoid of information. Sure, a few advertisers have my data (but much fewer than in the article, < 200!
by klmr 9y ago
By contrast, I found that my Facebook dump was extremely devoid of information. Sure, a few advertisers have my data (but much fewer than in the article, < 200!). Beyond that, the dump contains very little information that I didn’t explicitly provide to Facebook (such as Timeline posts, images, etc). At most it assigned a very broad category to me (“Established Adult Life” — OK, duh).
Of note, it did not contain any record of phone calls or SMS conversations I’ve had. This is probably because I didn’t give Facebook permission to collect this data, when asked.
Of course I’m under no illusion that this is the only data that Facebook has on me. Based on my (even sporadic) activity they must be able to infer lots more (and then there’s all that tracker data). They just don’t make the interesting bits downloadable.
- bdamm 9y agoAgreed; missing from the list is which entities have me in their list of contacts. This is of course available to Facebook. Of course they can't give me this data because they don't have consent from the other party, but still at least a nod to the missing data would be appropriate.
- phy6 9y agoFor a while I had enabled Messenger to handle texts on my phone, because it kept nagging me to do so, and also the one built in to the phone was terrible. So that means for a time they saw all my github/gmail authenticator login codes, delivery notifications, etc. I'm sure that's all somewhere.
- paulie_a 9y agoI can't even imagine how terrible that phone app was that Facebook messenger was a viable alternative. The floating head thing was truly awful.