what data does Facebook collect about you

Identify Facebook's data on you (more than 30 types)

Recently, WhatsApp, owned by parent company Facebook, has been subjected to a massive exodus of users of the service, owing to a privacy policy announced by WhatsApp that it will share with Facebook.

 Although WhatsApp has shown itself that not all of your data will be shared with Facebook, users know Facebook's bad reputation for user data and privacy.

So if you're one of the people whose privacy you really care about, and you really should, we're gonna find out in this article about Facebook's data on you, and we're gonna elain how to access this data to show it and even download it on your device? Let's get started.

What is the nature of Facebook's user information?

First: How to access and download your Facebook information

The process of accessing the data that Facebook collects is coming in simple steps, and the first step is to open your Facebook account and then go to "Settings and Privacy" by clicking on the arrow above the left of the screen and scrolling down to "Settings and Privacy."

Now from the Settings page, click on the Facebook Info option, and then you'll see some options. Here we need to press the "Access Your Information" option followed by the "View" option next to it.

Now our work starts on this information, and you'll notice that it's divided into several categories, and once you click on any one of these categories, your and your data will be presented.

As for downloadability, follow the same first and second steps, and instead of the "access to your information" option, direct to the "download" option.

Now you'll see the same categories that we talked about earlier, and all you have to do is identify the data you want to download or leave the options as they are, and before pressing the "create a file" option to download the information, there's also the option of clicking on top of "all my data" and using the calendar, and you can also choose the file format and media quality selection.

At the conclusion of this paragraph, Facebook will now process the file, and once it's ready for download, you will be immediately notified to start by pressing the "download" button from the same page.

Second: Facebook's automated data types

After we've figured out how to access Facebook's user data and how to download it, we now recognize the data, and as we pointed out in the title of our article, there are more than 30 types and it's as follows.

1 about you: This includes notifications, preferences, messaging software, facial recognition data, even automatic filling information and video clips viewed, down to personal files and pages visited by your contacts.

2 Personal accounts and files: This category includes your Instagram account information as well as your Facebook account information.

3 Declarations and companies: Here's the group of ads and ads you interact with, including, your activity outside Facebook.

4 Applications and websites: In short, this section carries the apps and websites where you logged access through your Facebook account, as well as any apps and websites that allowed you to post on your behalf.

5 Updated statements: This section will be filled with data when you make an archive of anything on the social service.

6 Comments: This section will provide all the comments you've written since you created your Facebook account.

7 Events: Facebook will collect invitations and responses to events, including your own and your contacts.

8 Facebook games: We know that Facebook has instant games that anyone can play, here all the data for these games will be stored.

9 Follow-up data: The pages on which follow-up was made, as well as personal files and even followers' data.

10 Friends statements: You carry both your Facebook friends' list and your friendship request data sent, received, and even removed.

11 Group data: Here, Facebook will collect all your publications, comments, and activity in groups.

12 Interactions: This category collects all the interactions of all the publications in your life on Facebook.

13 Admiration and reactions: All the fans and reactions I've made on Facebook will be collected here.

14 Location data: It's probably one of the most dangerous data, in which your current location and all your locations are clarified.

15 Suf data: Simply put, this tab will be for your Facebook Marketplace activity.

16 Correspondence: No less dangerous than the web site's data, in which all your conversations will be compiled on Massinger will be aggregated.

17 pages: The pages you recommended to your friends to admire, as well as the pages you're in charge of.

18 Payment date: If you've made payments through Facebook, all the data will be here.

19 Media: Facebook will arrive here for all your photos and videos you carried and shared on your Facebook trip.

20 Posts: The hidden posts and surveys I created on Facebook and all the posts I posted.

21 Profile information: Here your contact information will be collected and the data of the "about" section will be collected as well as hobbies, kin data, the events of your life from marriage, new employment, etc. Data.

22 Rewards: Here you will collect data for your Facebook Returns activity.

23 Elements and collections: This represents all kinds of publications that I've saved on Facebook.

24 Search data: Simply put, everything I've looked for in a Facebook search tape will be put here.

25 Security and login information: Here, Facebook will watch the time of your activity on the Web, the devices you entered with your account, their type, the time of login, the time of your login, and more.

26 stories: It's going to be about the stories you published or the stories you've seen with any responses you've made to any story.

27 Short video data: The short video activity will be shown on Facebook.

28 Trash: This is all about the data you sent to the trash can.

29 Video and transcription: Audio recording data and copies on Facebook.

30 places like The list of places you have created to record access will be shown.

31 Topics such as: Gather your interest in the topics you follow, to make relevant recommendations and suggestions.

32 Audio recording data and copies on Facebook.

33 other data: Apart from the previous data treasure, there is also a collection of data collected by Facebook, such as polls, impulses, avatars, and any data associated with your activity on the social network Facebook.

In conclusion, we have seen how much data Facebook collects about its users, who are you, me and others, and therefore understand exactly why this notoriety is about Facebook and any Facebook service, so avoid putting any sensitive, very special data on the company's servers once you put it on, even if you put it to yourself without anyone seeing it.