Facebook collects a variety of personal information from users including:
- Basic identifying information provided during account creation like name, email, gender and date of birth.
- Additional details that users choose to provide on their profile like work history, education, places lived.
- Records of all posts, comments, reactions, messages, events, groups joined, pages followed, applications used and locations checked into on the Facebook platform.
- Information is collected both actively when users input data and passively through users' activities and interactions on the site.
2. IT IS NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND
THAT YOU OWN YOUR PRIVATE DATA.
YOU CAN CHOOSE WHAT TO SHARE,
WITH WHOM AND YOU RESERVE THE
RIGHT TO WITHDRAW THAT CHOICE.
YOU OWN YOUR DATA
4. ONCE YOU PROVIDE THE
INFORMATION, YOUR FACEBOOK
ACCOUNT IS CREATED.
WHEN YOU START USING FACEBOOK, MORE
INFORMATION IS COLLECTED.
THIS IS THE FUN PART
6. POSTS
1. All posts (photos, notes, status updates
and videos) you have created or shared
2. All posts you have been tagged in
3. All posts you have hidden from your
timeline
4. All posts you have saved
5. All polls you have created
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7. REACTIONS
1. Comments you have made on your
posts
2. Comments you have made on other
people's posts
3. Comments you have made in
groups/ pages
4. Posts, comments, pages you have
liked or reacted to
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8. FRIENDS
1. People you are connected to
2. People you have removed as friends
3. People you have sent friend requests
to
4. People you have received friend
requests from
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9. INTERESTS
1. People, businesses and organisations
you follow
2. People who follow you
3. Groups you belong to
4. Pages you have created/ are admin of
5. Your activities in the groups (i.e. dates
you joined, posts/ comments you made)
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11. EVENTS
1. Events you have created or you have
been invited to
2. Your responses to event invitations
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12. PROFILEINFO
Everything you have added to your profile
including:
1. Name
2. Birthdate
3. Work information
4. Education information
5. Places you have lived
6. Phone numbers & email addresses
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13. TRANSACTIONS
1. Items you bought and sold on Marketplace
2. Payment methods
3. History of payments made
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14. LOCATION
1. Names of places you created/
checked into
2. Date and time of places you
created/ checked into
3. Work information
4. Education information
5. Places you have lived
6. Phone numbers & email addresses
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15. APPLICATIONS
1. Apps you have installed
2. Posts from apps that post on your
behalf
3. Apps you have created/ admin of
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16. IN PART 2, I WILL TELL YOU
HOW FACEBOOK USES YOUR
INFORMATION