Monday, January 02, 2017

Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them - ProPublica

Also see How Facebook Learns About Your Offline Life (Technology Review)

"Facebook’s site says it gets information about its users “from a few different sources.”

What the page doesn’t say is that those sources include detailed dossiers obtained from commercial data brokers about users’ offline lives. Nor does Facebook show users any of the often remarkably detailed information it gets from those brokers."
Facebook Doesn’t Tell Users Everything It Really Knows About Them - ProPublica

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