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Created page with "We want to explore what data Facebook has about us. * go to Facebook on your laptop * go to your "Settings" (little arrow in top right pointing down, then "Settings") == Acc..."
We want to explore what data Facebook has about us.
* go to Facebook on your laptop
* go to your "Settings" (little arrow in top right pointing down, then "Settings")
== Access your information ==
* go to "Settings > Your Facebook Information > Access Your Information"
* explore a bit, in particular '''from "Settings > Your Facebook Information > Access Your Information"''':
** in the first section, '''Your Information''':
*** '''" [https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications&apps_only Apps and Websites > Apps and Websites]" (and related tabs)''': these are all the sites where you have logged in over time using Facebook
*** '''" [https://www.facebook.com/location_history/view/ Location > Location History]"''': why would Facebook trace this? what can be done with it? to help you? to help Facebook? is it a good thing? a bad thing? what helps us decide?
** in the second section, '''Information About You''':
*** in the subsection '''About You''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=videowatch&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Videos You've Watched]"'''
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/mobile/facebook/contacts/ Your Address Books]"''' why plural? how will that impact the privacy of others? do you think you are in someone else's list of contacts, as known by Facebook?
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec Face Recognition]"''' what data do they possibly have there?
*** in the subsection '''Search History''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=search&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Your Search History]"''' and '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=video_search&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Videos You Have Searched For]"''' how private is this information?
*** in the subsection '''Security and Login Information''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=activesessions&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Where You Are Logged In]"''': pay attention to the duration of your logins. The whole time you are logged in, you are subject to Facebook's Terms of Service. Do you know what they say?
*** in the subsection '''Ads''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=information_about_you§ion_id=interests#interests Ads Interests]"''' these are things you have actively provided, mostly
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=information_about_you§ion_id=interacted#interacted Advertisers Who Uploaded a Contact List With Your Information]"'''
***** in tab '''Who uploaded a list with your info and advertised to it''', you can find a list of different advertisers ''who advertised to you''. Many more have presumably uploaded information about you, but you don't know and Facebook won't tell. See [https://medium.com/personaldata-io/facebook-forced-to-disclose-more-information-about-its-ad-targeting-7e6c0127722 here] for a history of how Facebook was forced to disclose some of the information here.
***** in tab '''Who have uploaded and shared a list with your info''', you can find a list of all the brokers who have passed on advertising list to others. For each, if you click '''View Details > Advertisers using lists with your info''', you can see how many end users of this list there were.
***** in tab '''More > Whose websites or apps you may have used''', you will find a list of websites and apps who have tracked you. How?
== Download your information ==
https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=information_about_you§ion_id=interests#interests
* use the tool to download some of your information
* explore this in raw format so you can make sense of it independently of Facebook's interface
* what format does it use? what size does it have?
* go to Facebook on your laptop
* go to your "Settings" (little arrow in top right pointing down, then "Settings")
== Access your information ==
* go to "Settings > Your Facebook Information > Access Your Information"
* explore a bit, in particular '''from "Settings > Your Facebook Information > Access Your Information"''':
** in the first section, '''Your Information''':
*** '''" [https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications&apps_only Apps and Websites > Apps and Websites]" (and related tabs)''': these are all the sites where you have logged in over time using Facebook
*** '''" [https://www.facebook.com/location_history/view/ Location > Location History]"''': why would Facebook trace this? what can be done with it? to help you? to help Facebook? is it a good thing? a bad thing? what helps us decide?
** in the second section, '''Information About You''':
*** in the subsection '''About You''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=videowatch&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Videos You've Watched]"'''
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/mobile/facebook/contacts/ Your Address Books]"''' why plural? how will that impact the privacy of others? do you think you are in someone else's list of contacts, as known by Facebook?
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec Face Recognition]"''' what data do they possibly have there?
*** in the subsection '''Search History''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=search&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Your Search History]"''' and '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=video_search&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Videos You Have Searched For]"''' how private is this information?
*** in the subsection '''Security and Login Information''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/paulolivier.dehaye/allactivity?category_key=activesessions&privacy_source=access_hub&entry_point=ayi_hub Where You Are Logged In]"''': pay attention to the duration of your logins. The whole time you are logged in, you are subject to Facebook's Terms of Service. Do you know what they say?
*** in the subsection '''Ads''':
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=information_about_you§ion_id=interests#interests Ads Interests]"''' these are things you have actively provided, mostly
**** '''"[https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=information_about_you§ion_id=interacted#interacted Advertisers Who Uploaded a Contact List With Your Information]"'''
***** in tab '''Who uploaded a list with your info and advertised to it''', you can find a list of different advertisers ''who advertised to you''. Many more have presumably uploaded information about you, but you don't know and Facebook won't tell. See [https://medium.com/personaldata-io/facebook-forced-to-disclose-more-information-about-its-ad-targeting-7e6c0127722 here] for a history of how Facebook was forced to disclose some of the information here.
***** in tab '''Who have uploaded and shared a list with your info''', you can find a list of all the brokers who have passed on advertising list to others. For each, if you click '''View Details > Advertisers using lists with your info''', you can see how many end users of this list there were.
***** in tab '''More > Whose websites or apps you may have used''', you will find a list of websites and apps who have tracked you. How?
== Download your information ==
https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=information_about_you§ion_id=interests#interests
* use the tool to download some of your information
* explore this in raw format so you can make sense of it independently of Facebook's interface
* what format does it use? what size does it have?