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Has anyone found anything interesting that Facebook has been tracking about them?

Asked by Zaku (30374points) March 25th, 2018

I read this article on how to see what data Facebook admits it has tracked about you and tried it out and shared it to Facebook a day or two ago. Today I got a Facebook message saying it had been removed because it looked like “spam” to them… (yeah, right.)

(Their lame attempt to stifle a useful article about their own data tracking inspired me to share about it here. Edit: I challenged the removal and they did at least restore the post right away.)

I wonder if anyone else has (or would like to) check out what Facebook has stored about them (that they share this way – you go to Facebook Settings and click on “Download a copy of your Facebook data” and after a few minutes it sends you a zip file containing local HTML content that will show you a view of what they have collected about you, though I doubt it’s really complete.

According to the article, there can be a lot of surprising information in the Contact Info section if you use the Facebook app, including tracking of people you talk to on the phone, but I don’t use that app and I didn’t see anything in that section.

Anyway, I thought it might be interesting to see if anyone here found anything interesting in the data that they might like to share?

The most interesting thing I found was a couple of messages I hadn’t noticed people sent me in the past.

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