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"The new survey finds that around one-in-ten Facebook users (9%) have downloaded the personal data about them available on Facebook. But despite their relativel
by josefresco 8y ago
"The new survey finds that around one-in-ten Facebook users (9%) have downloaded the personal data about them available on Facebook. But despite their relatively small size as a share of the Facebook population, these users are highly privacy-conscious."
9% of a huge number is... a huge number.
- ashelmire 8y agoOver 2B user base means 200 million have downloaded their data. That's a large nation's worth of concerned people.
- raffael-vogler 8y agoMaybe that includes Cambridge Analytica's requests for personal data ... would explain why the number is so high.
- larrik 8y agoAnd yet, my wife and I downloaded our personal data from Facebook for reasons very different than privacy (legal evidence stuff), so that's a broad brush.
- kaffeemitsahne 8y agoI and several others I know just downloaded it for fun.