My name, email, phone number, and other general personal informationĮvery single direct message sent to and from my account (7,499)Įveryone who follows me, everyone who I follow, everyone who is blocked My search history - and what time I searched itĪ list of posts I’ve “saved” (user names and dates of posts) Nothing on there really could be called a “surprise,” but it was still jarring to see my online behavior laid bare in data terms. json files, which aren’t useful to regular people, but you can open with a text editing program.) Instagram is owned by Facebook, but it’s separate, so I hadn’t seen the archive before. In a few days, the archives were available for me to view, some of which offered surprises and some of which did not. Fortunately, all but Lyft offered an option to download.įinding the link to ask these apps to prepare your data can be tricky, and sometimes a desktop website is necessary because the app doesn’t feature it. I identified Spotify, Strava, Duolingo, Uber, Lyft, and Instagram as the main apps that I use that would conceivably have data. (I do this for battery reasons more than privacy.)
For example, my weather app does not have my GPS on, because I just have a few favorite locations starred I can toggle among. I generally do what I can to limit data collection as a default, so I may have comparably fewer apps with personalized data than most. One important thing to note: In this age of data breaches and leaks, once you download your whole data archive you are now responsible for the security of all those lame DMs or GPS data.
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