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by jenius 5255 days ago
This was also my immediate reaction, agreed. I wrote an article a while ago that talks about a similar thing, but concludes more along those lines - facebook offers us the service for free, and as far as we know they do not sell our personal data. Until they do, we don't need to worry.

http://carrotblog.com/facebook-is-watching-you/

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Psst. We know they sell our personal data. Start worrying!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/11/29/facebooks...

HN Thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3292225

"Facebook promised users that it would not share their personal information with advertisers. It did."

I wonder why so few news sites picked up on this.