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"It was pretty enlightening to see how much information they actually had. I'd still recommend downloading it to look at even if you just end up deleting it. Very eye-opening."
What they found when they looked.
Different people, different exports — and the same moment of realizing how much was sitting in the file.
"People aren't joking when they say META keeps everything. I didn't know it'd also include messages from senders?! It's much more detailed than the discord data package. It's scary. I've been re-radicalized. These companies are evil. I think I'm pretty much done with social media."
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"And that's just the portion that they're willing to show you. Just imagine how much they really have on you."
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"I requested my data from Instagram and it wasn't as bad as I had thought. Although they had sold my data to 36 companies. The only thing that made me a bit anxious was that list of 36 companies. I do not know how the algorithms work, or if they use AI or other tools to analyze my private messages and activity to create a more advanced profile that they aren't sharing."
"The problem isn't what inputs you gave to Instagram — your clicks, your DMs — but what they can infer with the data that you provided. The famous Cambridge Analytica scandal showed that they could tell who was straight vs. homosexual with 88% accuracy based only on what kind of posts you liked. Even though what they provided you seems innocuous, what they're doing with that data is what people are so concerned about."
Drop your export. See what's actually in it.
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