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Facebook and Google and other advertising businesses are data factories, and regulation will be most effective if it lets users look inside
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The Guardian
Are you ready? This is all the data Facebook and Google have on you
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The Guardian
'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
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8 min read · 240 saves · From 2018 · Sandy Parakilas says numerous companies deployed these techniques – likely affecting hundreds of millions of users – and that Facebook looked the other way
The Verge
Google, Facebook, Microsoft, and Twitter partner for ambitious new data project
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WIRED
What's Not Included in Facebook's 'Download Your Data'
WIRED
6 min read · 220 saves · From 2018 · Facebook says users own their data and touts its "download your data" tool. But the download doesn't include everything Facebook knows about you.
The New York Times
Scholars Have Data on Millions of Facebook Users. Who’s Guarding It?
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7 min read · 54 saves · From 2018 · Academics have scoured Facebook pages in the name of science. But the troves they’ve amassed are sometimes unsecured and now pose a privacy risk.
The Wall Street Journal
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The New York Times
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4 min read · 53 saves · 2019-06-19 · Gabriel Weinberg · The big ad-tech companies know how to sell ads without damaging privacy, but they choose not to.
