Facebook Critic Is Unable To Archive His Personal Data -- Coincidence?

A Facebook user who happens to be a "very vocal" critic of the social network has been unsuccessfully attempting to retrieve his personal data via the Facebook archive download tool for weeks. Coincidence?

A Facebook user who happens to be a “very vocal” critic of the social network has been unsuccessfully attempting to retrieve his personal data via the Facebook archive download tool for weeks. Coincidence?

Sophos’ Naked Security blog shared the story of John Alarcon, who has criticized Facebook on forums including his status updates, questions and discussions on Facebook, comments on friends’ posts, and comments on Facebook-related articles posted by Sophos.

Alarcon told Naked Security that Facebook created an email address for users who want to extract their personal data, datarequests@fb.com.

An autoreply from that email address directed him to an archive download tool, which failed.

He then tried another personal data requests form on Facebook, and was asked to send a copy of his driver’s

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