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Description: Give Me My Data helps you reclaim and reuse your Facebook data
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Starting in 2009, Give Me My Data helped thousands of people retrieve their data from Facebook. Whether users wanted their information in reusable data formats to make visualizations, archive it, or to see exactly what Facebook was tracking and sharing about them, Give Me My Data provided this utility, free of charge.
In late 2010, six months after The New York Times and others wrote about how my app helped users access their personal data, Facebook suddenly launched their own version. It’s no coincidence Facebook released a similar service just months after Give Me My Data’s popularity began. The broad attention my app received showed Facebook they needed to provide the growing number of users dissatisfied with the lack of transparency of their platform access and agency over their own data. It is sad, but not surprisin
Accordingly, Facebook recently began requiring all apps using their platform to upgrade to version 2.0 of their API. With this upgrade Facebook introduced a “Login Review” process to restrict which user data permissions third-party apps could request. Under this process, Facebook can now impede what data can be accessed by apps, and alas, whether users can access their own data. While presented as a beneficial feature , this process ultimately allows Facebook to censor apps they don’t like. In May 2015, usi
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