Facebook expands its ‘Download Your Information’ tool to include IP addresses and friend requests

Ahead of its impending IPO and after coming under fire for its privacy policies, Facebook has now expanded its “Download Your Information” tool that allows users to see what information the social network collects and stores on them, to include more data.

“Starting today, you will be able to download an expanded archive of your Facebook account history. First introduced in 2010, Download Your Information lets you get a copy of what you’ve shared on Facebook, such as photos, posts, messages, a list of friends and chat conversations. Now you can access additional categories of information, including previous names, friend requests you’ve made and IP addresses you logged in from. This feature will be rolling out gradually to all users and more categories of information will be available for download in the future,” the social networking giant wrote in a post on the site.

The complete list of new information that users can retrieve using the Download Your Information page includes:

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

Mobile phone numbers

City and hometown (whatever is currently listed)

Names of the family members

Your relationship info (names and statuses)

Languages: List of the languages added to your profile

Profile changes: History of any changes you’ve made to the name on your account

To download your information from Facebook, click the account menu at the top right of any Facebook page. Choose Account Settings, click on ‘Download a copy of your Facebook data’ and click ‘Start My Archive.’

Find more info on this in the Facebook Account Settings page