The social network Facebook, its economic model, like many other services on the internet,use of personal data. These are used to always offer you more relevant content, whether it’s about recommendations from groups or friends, or above all, of course, advertising content.
Users may not be aware of the extent or extent of this collection. But this tutorial will help you see more clearly.
Facebook: how to consult your personal data
Very simple :
- From the Facebook home page, click the arrow on the far right as in the picture above
- enter inside Settings & Privacy > Settings
- click your facebook information in the left column
- click To see on the right Access your information
You can then access a page that lists all your data in many categories. Click on each to view your respective personal data.
Facebook: how to download all or some of your personal data?
For him:
- From the Facebook homepage, click the arrow at the top right after your avatar and the other buttons to the right.
- enter inside Settings & Privacy > Settings
- click your facebook information in the left column
- click To see on the right Download your information
You can then select all or some of your personal data. The period field allows you to limit data to a specific time period, for example, if you are doing a specific search.
- Once the data is selected, click on it. create file
After a period ranging from a few hours to a few days, you will receive an email and a notification that the file is ready for download. To go further, see our specific tutorial on how to upload your personal data to Facebook.
We told you that beyond your name, name, address and any other data you voluntarily submit to Facebook, the social network collection is huge. And that shouldn’t get any better with the new terms of use of other Facebook services like WhatsApp. To give you an idea, here is the list of categories of personal data Facebook currently collects:
- Publications
- Photos and videos
- Comments
- Likes and reactions
- Friends
- stories
- Subscribers and Subscriptions
- posts
- Groups
- Events
- profile information
- Pages
- market place
- Payment history
- Saved items and collections
- Your places (location)
- Facebook-connected apps and websites
- Other activities (nudges and other data)
- facebook game
- interactions
- basket
- Archive
- short videos
- Accounts added to the Accounts Area
- Awards
- Advertising preferences and companies
- Search history
- About you
- Login and security information
- your subjects
- Audio recordings and transcriptions
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