Facebook claims that the data they have on people cannot be understood by the average person, and because the GDPR requirements state that data needs to be given in an easily understood format, giving this data would violate the law. So they refuse to give it.
This was after months of simply ignoring the requests.
And the GDPR archive is... funny. They're so hellbent on never ever letting anyone export their social graph in a usable format. So, if you request your friend list through the GDPR export tool, what do you think you get?
Names of your friends and timestamps of when you added them. That's all. This is just so ridiculously useless for anything but compliance.
Besides that, there are no user/group/post/whatever IDs anywhere. Everyone and everything is referred to by names and names only. It's hilarious.
There was a negative connotation associated with the FB brand, which caused people to leave, so they rebranded and it's like they have a clean slate. [1] They now seem to be on a hiring spree again to get more people to build a bigger surveillance empire using heavy stock comp. Stock growth is dependent on their ability to keep the masses pacified while hoarding more data and targeting better.
From the Facebook SDK that is embedded on nearly every app that's constantly phoning home, to the largest social media apps, they hoard so much data. If GDPR doesn't unfaze them, I don't know what regulation will.
Facebook claims that the data they have on people cannot be understood by the average person, and because the GDPR requirements state that data needs to be given in an easily understood format, giving this data would violate the law. So they refuse to give it.
This was after months of simply ignoring the requests.
Seriously.