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Has anyone tried doing a deep dive on their own data from FB?

Is it fairly accessible to crunch this?




The actual Consumer Reports piece has exactly the information on how to do this:

https://www.consumerreports.org/electronics/privacy/each-fac...

> Facebook users can browse through the list of companies that have sent their data to Facebook by going to the Accounts Center and clicking on “Your information and permissions.”


Following the instructions I get "You have no available activity to show at this time.". Even when downloading my data I get nothing under sections like "Connected apps and websites". So it looks like opting out of everything possible and running FB in a dedicated FF container only seems to do something.


I’d be surprised if the container is that effective. They get data from other source too


Thanks!


Surely someone here either knows a FB insider or is one, and could anonymously give a realistic description from the inside on what "creepy information" exists for the average user. And yet I haven't seen such a description. Is this because FB is simply too large and complicated for any person to really know what is tracked to any useful degree?


I don't believe anyone has ever received a copy of their "shadow profile". Nor do I think folks can see all of the data associated with their FB account (or Google account, even). I think it would really creep folks out if they could.


Briefly, before I requested they deleted it all(GDPR jurisdiction).

They had logs of pretty much every website I'd been to going back several years.

Fucking creeps.




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