Looks like after reddit effect of users requesting CDs with their data Facebook allowed them to request download of all their published data. So for now there are two ways to get your data, but to have them all you still have use both.
Download all the data you’ve published so far.
This is simple, log-in to Facebook and go to your Account Settings. You’ll see there the option Download a copy of your Facebook data.at the bottom of the page. After gettin’ there you have to click on request and wait patiently a few hours for your email with download link.
After you recive your email, download the archive (it can be big) and unzip it you’ll see a tree like this:
┌─(14:05)─(marcin@windzior)─[~]$
└─> ls owncloud/facebook/sirmacik/
./ ../ html/ photos/ videos/ index.html README.txt You can open index.html in your browser and there is your whole Facebook profile containing all the photos and movies you’ve ever posted. After a short discussion on Diaspora* I’ve seen few ppl surprised by the amount of data they’ve found there, but personally I wasn’t. I knew about every single thing from the archive.
As I said, it’s not all that you can get about yourself from Facebook.
Request a CD
They say it’s a bit of a trouble and personally, I haven’t tried it yet. Long story short:
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But on europe-v-facebook.org you can read that it’s not that easy. You often have to sent few more emails regarding the issue or even file a complainy to Irish Data Protection Commissioner. After that Facebook has up to 40 days to sent you a CD containing al the data they’ve collected about you. europe-v-facebook.org has published few sample documents showing what can you expect.
I’ll try to get it, please share your story if you have already had.
