But Facebook would only say that users with location history enabled can manage the data through their Activity Log and that device location includes GPS. When I asked whether the download tool showed all location data that Facebook collected from a user’s phone, including GPS, rather than just instances where a user knowingly checked in, the company answered a question I had not asked, telling me that GPS location information is controlled by a device’s settings. Later the company told me that Ad Topics is a subset of Ad Interests, but not what's excluded.įacebook offered even less clarity on other issues. By contrast, Facebook says Your Categories reflects both a user’s activity on and off Facebook. Why aren’t those relationships and political categories included in Download Your Data? Facebook says Ad Interests are based on a user’s activity on Facebook, including such things as the pages you like.
And, just ahead of new, tougher European privacy rules, Facebook made some upgrades, including the ability to download your history of searches inside Facebook and location history, which were previously only viewable in a user’s Activity Log. One reporter’s reaction after using the tool: “Yikes.” Wikileaks, Julian Assange, and alt-right provocateurs recommend giving it a whirl. It’s true that users can download and review a lot of information with the tool, including status updates, messages they thought were deleted, drafts of videos that were never published, facial-recognition data, a list of people they unfriended, and, for some Android users, a list of phone calls and text messages. “You can go to it in your settings and download all of the content that you have on Facebook.” We've had it for years,” Zuckerberg told US representative Jerry McNerney (D-California). We have a ‘download your information’ tool. Eight times during his testimony, he cited a feature called “Download Your Data,” to show that Facebook users really are in control. When members of Congress asked Mark Zuckerberg earlier this month who owns Facebook users’ personal data, the Facebook CEO had a convenient response.
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