As part of Personal Data Protection Day, UFC-Que Choisir is launching a tool that lets you know what personal data the most popular platforms store. The association is responsible for contacting each service to erase them if necessary.
What does Facebook, Twitter, Netflix or Instagram know about you? Each of these services collects a lot of personal data to build your composite portrait and profit from it. The GDPR has forced the hand of these platforms so that they can allow their users to consult this data and to retrieve it, modify it and also delete it.
But now, access to this kind of options is far from easy and you still need to know that it exists. To help everyone to access it easily, the Federal Union of Consumers-Que Choisir (UFC-Que Choisir) is launching an online tool. Its promotion is carried out as part of an awareness campaign behind the hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUneData, as this Saturday is European Data Protection Day.
To regain control, you must first click on I take back my hand from the page www.jenesuispasunedata.fr. In the new page, you then have access to the icons of the most popular platforms: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Uber, Takeout, Tinder, TikTok, Netflix.
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Presentation video of the #JeNESuisPasUneData tool. © UFC-Que Choisir
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All you have to do is click on the service icon to go directly to the page dedicated to accessing your personal data. You have to follow the instructions to download an archive including all of this data from your first visit to the site. Then, still from the online tool, you must upload the file to have it analyzed automatically by the site. A page then displays a graph showing all the activity you may have had over time and also the files and content published. Then it remains to limit the influence of the platforms on your data by filling out a form so that the organization pushes your request for access to your personal data. The operation is done in just three steps.
