Getting my personal data out of Facebook

Getting my personal data out of Facebook

The latest email I received from Facebook confirms that they are with their earlier statement that— and I paraphrase— they cannot give me my data, because the average person is too dumb to understand simple things like their location history . Facebook has a Download Your Information tool, which is part of their aforementioned smoke and mirrors strategy to give people the feeling that they can always obtain their data (and to fake goodwill toward the to make it seem they respect ). However, one of the creative legal geniuses at Facebook came up with this gem:

In other words: you are too stupid to understand your own data, and this includes things like your location and which device you have used when.

Source: ruben.verborgh.org