Once you have the file, you can download it as a folder to your desktop. Mine was labeled "facebook-louisematsakis. The first piece of information you will want to look at is a file labeled index. Clicking on this file will open a tab within your browser, with a menu of options on the left-hand side. Under Profile , you'll find a list of basic information the site has about you, like the exact time you signed up for Facebook, the contact information you've provided, as well as any work or education history.
One surprising piece of information on this screen: Facebook keeps a list of everyone you've previously said you were in a relationship with. For me, this includes a bunch of my friends, because back in middle and high school, it was cool to declare you were in a relationship with a close friend.
The list only includes three people I've actually dated. The very first person on the list is, inexplicably, my own cousin being 13 was weird, OK? The Photos tab contains every photo you've ever uploaded to the site, as well as related metadata, like the IP address from which each photo was uploaded.
Scroll down, and you'll find a link to the facial recognition data that Facebook retains. If you click it, you can see your Example Count , which could be the number of photos Facebook used to train a machine learning algorithm to recognize your face. My Example Count is Facebook says this figure is "a unique number based on a comparison of the photos you're tagged in. We use this data to help others tag you in photos. The Videos tab contained dozens of clips I posted to my friends' timelines when I was a teenager.
It's impressive how much you can forget what you shared over the years; I was horrified to realize that Facebook had so many grainy videos of my face at 13, 14, and 15 years old. How to control other data was more straightforward -- like manually revoking the Facebook app's permissions that I once authorized to access my Facebook information. Same goes for advertisers. To take myself off customer lists for certain -- or all -- advertisers, I simply needed to "uncheck" them via the Preferences page.
The key is understanding all of the information that Facebook is gathering. In all this, I came to the realization that the act of Facebooking should not be a passive sport. How to find out what Facebook knows about you. CNNMoney Sponsors.
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Skip Navigation. Key Points. Facebook keeps a treasure trove of information on you, which goes all the way back to when you first started to use the social network. You can download your own archive of this information if you want to see what Facebook knows, or if you want to leave the social network and take your history with you. This personal revelation comes among recent allegations that, on Android devices, Facebook may have been scraping data on calls made and text messages sent from users' mobile devices -- through the device itself, not the Messenger platform.
Here's what that logged activity looked like for one Android user who discovered this record in his own data file:. Source: Ars Technica. Facebook's response to this allegation is that users must explicitly opt into allowing Messenger to access contacts and, it seems, log call and text activity. According to a statement published Sunday:.
But according to Ars Technica writer and editor Sean Gallagher, that's not the experience shared by all Android Users.
Even though he never installed Messenger on the Android devices he's used, Gallagher says that after installing Facebook on his Nexus tablet and Blackphone 2 in , his own archive includes call data from between and That's after, he says , never receiving "an explicit message requesting access to phone call and SMS data. If nothing else, it seems that no one is quite sure how, exactly, personal Facebook user data is being leveraged, in whose possession it might be, and how much information those who have it might be privy to.
After several days of silence on the initial Cambridge Analytica data misuse allegations, Zuckerberg finally issued a statement on the matter last Thursday, and has been on an active interview and apology circuit since then. Case in point: Full-page mea culpa ads in the Sunday editions of the New York Times , Washington Post , and Observer which is published by Guardian, an outlet Facebook threatened to sue before it first reported on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
But there have been a few key, repetitive themes underlying Zuckerberg's remarks. The first is an emphasis on the words "I'm sorry," which were notably absent from his official written statement released last week. The second is Zuckerberg's suggested willingness to appear before lawmakers and other authorities to testify on user data and privacy -- if, as he told Recode , he's "the person who has the most knowledge on it.
And because the Federal Trade Commission confirmed today that it is non-publicly investigating Facebook among its "substantial concerns about the privacy practices," Zuckerberg should be prepared to testify -- especially since he's been called upon to do so by members of the Senate Judiciary Committee along with the CEOs of Google and Twitter.
It all leads to an increasingly likely outcome: that Facebook and its big tech counterparts will have to bow to the external regulation that it's been visibly dodging for some time. For example, after allegations first came to light that Facebook was weaponized by foreign agents to influence the U. And where such regulation is going to have the greatest ripple effect, according to HubSpot Director of Strategic Partnerships Kevin Raheja, is advertising. This is a developing story that I'll monitoring as it unfolds.
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