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Facebook is storing an updated copy of your phone Contacts, nicknames included

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What do you think google has been doing for years.... And they do work closely with NSA.

Is there a way to download all the information FB stores about you?

There surely is more than in the official download. You can't even see likes there, let alone shadow profiles, multi-accounts and whatnot.

Does living in the EU help maybe?

Yeah, I'm sure they're keeping A LOT of data. Metadata, search history, profiles browsing, app usage times and dates... Unfortunately there's no way to know exactly what data are they hiding, unless you're Zucks or something like that.

As far as I know, living in the EU does help: my understanding is that within the EU, all your data belongs to you even if it's stored by Facebook; as opposed as the US, where Facebook is the rightful owner of the data you provide.

I will try this for a bit more: http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Get_your_Data_/get_your_...

(but still no likes they say: (2nd paragraph) http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html )

Search history is indeed a nice example. It's so easy to prove (they autocomplete past searches, even if it's a long random string initially typed on another machine/browser)

Living in the EU does not help. In fact, this is the office responsible for overseeing data protection matters for all Silicon Valley companies operating across the entire EU:

https://www.google.nl/maps/place/Office+of+the+Data+Protecti...

And now you also know why Silicon Valley likes to have their European headquarters in Ireland. It's not just because the beer is fantastic.

And probably your calendar events and who they're with and any associated info, etc... including any confidential corporate/health/other info

oh, and so does any other app that has calendar permissions (uber, etc)

I wonder if Facebook will be punished to set an example with the GPDR of the EU.

Only if you authorized the Messenger app to take over your SMS app.

Hey HN! Did I do something wrong? I got a Twitter notification that this reached the frontpage, went to check it and it did, had like 48 upvotes, checked it again a minute after that and it's now buried in "new" with 20 upvotes. First time at HN – sorry if I made some mistake

That sounds to me like it was probably submitted twice, one got upvoted and then flagged.

As I understand it, you can't downvote posts. So a post should not drop from 48 points to 20.

Might be, but I've only seen my submission + I'm 100% sure I saw this precise post in the frontpage with 40+ upvotes :/

There is a search function at the bottom of the page. I will suggest you double check.

Thanks! But yup, searched it and I only see my own submission :/

I wouldn't worry about it too much. I imagine after the many facebook posts these past few days, many people downvote or flag them immediately.

You can flag posts. That counts as a downvote (or more).

If I had to guess, I'd say the submission got heavily penalized for being trollbait. Either by the mods, or by the community.

Flags affect ranking (which might be what you're getting at), but they don't change the number of votes displayed.

I believe submissions from Twitter are down-weighted by default. As for changes in the number of votes, I suggest you email the mods via the Contact link in the footer for a definitive answer.

Just contacted them, thank you for the suggestion!

HN has an aggressive automatic voting ring detector. That might account for the lost votes. But emailing the mods is definitely the right way to find out.

I didn't do any of that shady stuff, just submitted it and waited. I just wrote the mods, thank you!

are you sure that you didn't mistake the 48 for 18?

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