You can’t hide from Facebook
Muhammad Anser
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Facebook has since quite a while ago enabled you to download a chronicle of the considerable number of information the social network has on you, and HackerNoon's Georges Abi-Heila chose to discover precisely what organization thinks about its users.
Abi-Heila reports (via TNW) that his archive was a 500MB compress document, and it included everything from the day he joined the service.
Simply, Facebook never erases anything. Unfriended companions, past connections, previous managers, past names, address book: and so on.
I made my record Friday, September 14, 2007, at 10:59 am and every one of my activities have been recorded from that point onward. I feel that without precedent for history, 10 years of predictable human conduct have been fastidiously assembled, put away and dissected.
A portion of the information is more nitty gritty than you may anticipate. So Facebook knows where you were each time you took a photograph uploaded to your wall, and session information lets it know your area as well as your IP address.
In case you're a piece of the 1.4 B individuals that use Facebook once a day, they have enough information focuses to decide your regular day to day existence designs with awesome precision: home and place of business, every day drive, wake up and sleep time, travel term and goal, and so forth.
Also, it can remember you regardless of whether you are tagged in a photograph.
Facebook allegedly said that its picture acknowledgment models could perceive human appearances with 98% precision and that it could distinguish a man in one picture out of 800 million in under five seconds.
Facebook Business stage gives a few insights about what data is utilized as a part of custom gatherings of people focusing on: city, state, nation, date of birth, age and gender.
You can download your very own duplicate information by tapping the chevron upper right, at that point Settings. In a genuinely unobvious place underneath the settings is a link to the download.
Facebook has recently come under scrutiny though for the way that one supposed privacy feature actually makes your data available for analysis.