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by londons_explore 2074 days ago
In general, GDPR data dumps are provided in "as hard to parse as possible" file formats to discourage exactly that...

Imagine things like Facebook messenger chats being indexed by a person name rather than an account ID or phone number so there is a high chance "Chat with Dave" is ambiguous... Not the kind of thing you could start a lawsuit over, but it is enough of a barrier that re-importing exported data is near impossible.