People are downloading their Facebook data and the results are terrifying

do these zips represent what fb makes available to advertisers/app publishers/partners/researchers or is it just a dump of everything fb has on you as a user? seems there's at least a few different ways for your info to leak... what exactly is provided to an advertiser? what exactly is provided to an app publisher, assuming the user granted permissions to access the phone & contacts? certainly personally identifiable info in the 2nd case.

is there no safeguard against 1 idiot contact sharing YOUR info without YOUR consent?

At this stage, it's probably safe to assume that if Facebook has collected it, there will be a price tag to go along with it.

This is far less than Google knows. Google has my entire location history, search, voice search clips, every photo I take, my contacts, every app I open and when.

Read this thread. Even though I've always known that this was all stored it's still eye opening to see it methodically laid out:

https://twitter.com/iamdylancurran/status/977559925680467968

That is an excellent thread indeed, thank you for the link

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