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by ElectricalUnion 1436 days ago
> It's a bit pedantic, but Facebook does not sell your personal data. They use it to target advertising.

But they also leak personal data. A lot.

At this point, I'm willing to believe that the other adtech-corporations are more likely to be interested and capable in maintaining your data out of the prying eyes (of competing adtech-corporations).

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> But they also leak personal data. A lot.

Some examples please. In recent memory I can only think of examples where services violated TOS (which I'm not sure how FB could prevent) or got authorization from the end user (as in the Cambridge Analytica case).

Any examples of them leaking data as a result of their own processes?

Already posted this above

“We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data,” Facebook engineers say in leaked document.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/akvmke/facebook-doesnt-know-...

And? I'm not sure what this has to do with actual leaked data. I'm sure that many companies do not have a high quality data monitoring system, but very few actually leak data to the public.