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Facebook Ad Plans Raise Privacy Issues

Seems employees can troll, control, and fiddle with personal data

By Jason Farago,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 7, 2007 12:49 PM CST

(Newser) – As the advertising industry prepares to harness the personal data of 50 million Facebook users, new privacy concerns are whipping through cyberspace. Valleywag reveals that Facebook employees not only have access to users' profiles and inboxes, but can alter them. And they do—frequently enough...   Read full story »

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