The Cambridge Analytica outrage continues to turn over on . As it does , hoi polloi are becoming more and more aware of just how much data Facebook has on them .
One well-off ( yet slightly horrible ) way to see it all in one spot is to request all of your Facebook data as a zip file cabinet . A lot of people have been trying this over the last week , and have been pretty shocked by how much of their info the technical school giant has .
While most people would expect Facebook to have data on how they use the app , they ’re a fiddling shocked to discover it has access to everything from all the contacts on their earpiece to a record book of every text substance they ’ve ever sent or received , even if they do n’t employ Facebook Messenger . But that ’s not all Facebook has .
" They have plundered my phone . They have earpiece turn of multitude who are n’t on Facebook , " British actor and writer Emma Kennedywrote on Twitter .
" They have phone numbers of household names who , I ’m sure , would be maddened to know their speech sound numbers are approachable . I ’m appalled . "
Other Facebook users have had the same experience .
It would be easy to give the sack these as unusual case where users have n’t go down their privacy preferences decently . But it does seem to be fairly distinctive . Developers and techies likewise are reporting the same matter . Even hoi polloi who arrogate to have their privacy preferences locked down like Alcatraz during a visit from the President are find that Facebook still has a luck of selective information on them stored away .
One developer from New Zealand downloaded his datum , which he .
After creating hand to record statistics of his prison cell phone record , he happen Facebook had book of :
Dylan McKay , who make the script , hasmade the computer code available on Githubfor anyone who would like to make sentiency of their own Facebook data .
But the amount of datum Facebook has stored on you does n’t blockade there , unfortunately . Recently a news reporter checked out his own data .
“ It include scanned copies of lease shape from a previous rental property I must ’ve sent to my buddies over Messenger , my current renter ledger report , an old monthly billing statement for my home plate broadband , screenshots of banking transfer and seemingly endless World Wide Web pages of all the banal conversation I have ever had on the platform , ” he wrote in theNew Zealand Herald .
“ It ’s an odd tone to think that , in some ways , Facebook knows you better than you know yourself . ”
Your own data point can be bespeak as a zip filehere . Be warned , you might not like what you find .
