Re:What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
by k_lander on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:45PM
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Makes me wonder how many "features" considered internally at FB, Google, etc are being scrapped only because it would not be worth the risk of potential backlash by spooked out users even though they have in their possession all the necessary data.
Re:What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
by Peyphour on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:08PM
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Could just be IP geolocation
Re:What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
by macintux on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:40PM
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Geo IP location is possible but unlikely: the location was very precise and accurate, and I would assume Verizon (wasn't on wifi) wouldn't be handing out IPs with that level of specificity.
Plus it only ever happened that once.
Re:What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
by gregsadetsky on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:24PM
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in addition to that, wouldn't it have access to the MAC addresses of the wifi networks around you, and more importantly, be able to do a geo-ip check?
Re:What’s Not Included in Facebook’s “Download Your Data”
by macintux on Monday April 23, 2018 @02:40PM
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Wouldn't have access to MAC addresses.
Geo IP location is possible but unlikely: the location was very precise and accurate, and I would assume Verizon (wasn't on wifi) wouldn't be handing out IPs with that level of specificity.
Plus it only ever happened that once.
The best I could figure is that I temporarily enabled access to my camera roll so I could post a few photos (ordinarily I just copy/paste them to keep Facebook out of my photos), and either it scanned the photos' exif data during upload or directly from the roll once I enabled it.
I wasn't remotely surprised to find that particular piece of location data wasn't part of the data download.