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submitted 8 months ago by leraje@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

in 2018, Facebook told Vox that it doesn't use private messages for ad targeting. But a few months later, The New York Times, citing "hundreds of pages of Facebook documents," reported that Facebook "gave Netflix and Spotify the ability to read Facebook users’ private messages."

Surprising? No. Appalling? Yes.

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[-] danc4498@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2024
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