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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 Wall Street Journal
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Business Insider
533 million Facebook users' phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online
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The Guardian
'Utterly horrifying': ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting was routine
The Guardian
9 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'
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The New York Times
Scholars Have Data on Millions of Facebook Users. Who’s Guarding It?
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