How to Download Your Facebook Enhanced Data Archive – 2012

On May 4, 2012, we were finally able to download our Facebook Enhanced Data Archive. The file was only 44KB but it contained some data and account history that is permanently on the Facebook servers and cannot be removed.

• Datr Authentication Cookie Info – A copy of Facebook Cookies that are stored under our Facebook Account.
• Events – A list of all Events we’ve attending.
• IP Addresses – A list of IP Addresses, some were from 6 years ago when we travelled Internationally.
• Pending Friend Requests – Both requests you have send and received.
• Login/Logout Info – For Facebook.com, their Mobile and iPad sties including IP Addresses.
• Previous Name/Relationship Info – This is history data that is permanently archived by Facebook.

On April 12, 2012, Facebook announced on its Facebook Privacy Page that it began expanding its Archive feature to its 845 million monthly active users. In Europe, 40,000 Facebook users requested a full copy of the data that Facebook has compiled on each of them. Under the European privacy law, Facebook had to comply with these requests.

Below are instructions on how to Download the Enhanced Data Archive.

Step By Step Instructions

1. Click the account menu at the top right of any Facebook page

2. Choose Account Settings

3. Click on “Download a copy of your Facebook data”

4. Under What’s Not in My Archive, Click Expanded Archive

5. You will receive a notification that your request is pending.

6. In about 3 hours, we received an email that your download was ready. We logged into Facebook using the steps above and re-entered our password.

7. Our Facebook Download file was 44 KB. It did not include the same data as the main Facebook download file. It included the 1 folder (html):

FB-USERID-FOLDER

Index.html – A HTML file allowing you to navigate your Faceboook Enhanced Data

html folder (see item 8 for more info)

• style.css
• account_status_changes.html – Dates when your account was reactivated, deactivated, disabled or deleted
• address.html – Address, City/Town, Neighborhood, Zip, Country, Residence, Room, Mailbox
• *Addressbook.html – Contacts from your iPhone or Mobile Phone Address book and their Phone/Cell Phone Numbers.
• *admin_apps.html – Facebook Apps you Admin.
• *admin_pages.html – Facebook Pages you admin.
• *alternate_name.html – An Alternate Name, if used.
• *apps.html – Facebook Apps you have installed on your Computer and Mobile Device(s).
• birthday.html – Birthday visibility setttings (for example: Show only month & day in my profile).
• cities.html – City and Hometown info.
• *currency.html – A currency, if set.
• datr.html – a list of cookies, and the date they were issued (although the list of cookies doesn’t tell you anything).
• *deleted_friends.html – Friends that you deleted, their real name.
• *educations.html – School Name, Graudated, Degree, Concentrations, Classes (if entered).
• *emails.html – Current Emails, Pending Emails, Previous Emails
• events.html – Events you accepted, declined, and responded maybe to (Event Name, Location, Event Start Time, Event End Time, RSVP status).
• family.html – The names of the family members you’ve listed on your account
• friend_requests.html – Pending Sent and Pending Received Friend Requests.
• ipaddresses.html (IP addresses that Facebook has stored – we found IP Addresses from our travel abroad)
• languages.html – Spoken Languages
• *linked_accounts.html – Provider Name, Account Identifier (examples: MyOpenID)
• *locale.html – Example: en_US
• logins.html – IP Address Login (Facebook.com, m.Facebook.com, Facebook for iPad) and IP Address, Date/Time
• logouts.html – Ip Address, Date/time and Site.
• names.html – Previous names
• networks.html – Networks
• *notifications.html – Facebook Notifications for Facebook Features such as “Adds you as a friend, Pokes you” and Third Party Mobile Apps.
• phones.html – Phone Number, Type (Mobile), Verified
• photo.jpg – Current Profile Photo
• *physical_tokens.html – Name, ID, State
• pokes.html – Date/Time, Author, Recipient
• relationship.html – Relationship Info
• *screennames.html- Service, Screen Name, Is Hidden? (Examples: Twitter, Skype)
• *subscribers.html – if any.

8.On May 4, 2012, we ran the Facebook Enhanced Archive Data. Since this information was rolled out gradually to the Facebook User Community, this was the first time we were able to request it. Below is more information on the data that is included in the Facebook Enhanced Archive Data.

*On May 25, 2012, we ran the Facebook Enhanced Archive Data again. The entries with an “*” asterisk represent the new entries.  

The Facebook Enhanced Data Archive contained a new Address Book feature that contained Contact Names, Cell Phone Numbers and Email Addresses from our Apple iPhone. Click Here – Is Facebook Stealing Your iPhone Contacts?

Facebook Enhanced Archive

Your enhanced archive contains additional info about your account, along with data that’s logged when you interact with Facebook. This could include:

• IP addresses: Any IP addresses we have stored (this won’t be all of the IP addresses that have ever accessed your account)
• Login info: A list of the logins we have stored (this won’t include every login during your account’s history)
• Log out info: The IP addresses from which you logged out
• Pending friend requests: Friend requests you sent and friend requests you received but haven’t accepted or denied
• Account status changes: Dates when your account was reactivated, deactivated, disabled or deleted
• Poke info: Information about the pokes you’ve exchanged
• Events info: Events you accepted, declined, and responded maybe to

• Other profile (timeline) info:

  • The mobile phone numbers you’ve added to your account
  • Your city and hometown (whatever is currently listed)
  • The names of the family members you’ve listed on your account
  • Your relationship info (names and statuses)
  • A list of the languages you’ve added to your profile
  • A history of any changes you’ve made to the name on your account

Sources: NYTimes.com, Facebook.com