Yeah, I'm sure they're keeping A LOT of data. Metadata, search history, profiles browsing, app usage times and dates... Unfortunately there's no way to know exactly what data are they hiding, unless you're Zucks or something like that.
As far as I know, living in the EU does help: my understanding is that within the EU, all your data belongs to you even if it's stored by Facebook; as opposed as the US, where Facebook is the rightful owner of the data you provide.
Search history is indeed a nice example. It's so easy to prove (they autocomplete past searches, even if it's a long random string initially typed on another machine/browser)
Living in the EU does not help. In fact, this is the office responsible for overseeing data protection matters for all Silicon Valley companies operating across the entire EU:
Hey HN! Did I do something wrong? I got a Twitter notification that this reached the frontpage, went to check it and it did, had like 48 upvotes, checked it again a minute after that and it's now buried in "new" with 20 upvotes. First time at HN – sorry if I made some mistake
I believe submissions from Twitter are down-weighted by default. As for changes in the number of votes, I suggest you email the mods via the Contact link in the footer for a definitive answer.
HN has an aggressive automatic voting ring detector. That might account for the lost votes. But emailing the mods is definitely the right way to find out.
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[ 3.7 ms ] story [ 61.9 ms ] threadoh, and so does any other app that has calendar permissions (uber, etc)
There surely is more than in the official download. You can't even see likes there, let alone shadow profiles, multi-accounts and whatnot.
Does living in the EU help maybe?
As far as I know, living in the EU does help: my understanding is that within the EU, all your data belongs to you even if it's stored by Facebook; as opposed as the US, where Facebook is the rightful owner of the data you provide.
(but still no likes they say: (2nd paragraph) http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Data_Pool/data_pool.html )
Search history is indeed a nice example. It's so easy to prove (they autocomplete past searches, even if it's a long random string initially typed on another machine/browser)
https://www.google.nl/maps/place/Office+of+the+Data+Protecti...
And now you also know why Silicon Valley likes to have their European headquarters in Ireland. It's not just because the beer is fantastic.
As I understand it, you can't downvote posts. So a post should not drop from 48 points to 20.
If I had to guess, I'd say the submission got heavily penalized for being trollbait. Either by the mods, or by the community.