A handy list of ways Facebook has tried to sneakily gather data about you

As we learned last year, Facebook has a habit of stealthily grabbing customer data to improve its own products and services, and then apologizing when the world finds out. There have been several instances that highlight how the company will go to any lengths to learn more about its users. It’s worrying for a number of reasons, but it’s especially troubling because the company still has tremendous potential to reach billions of users. Here’s a comprehensive list of Facebook‘s notorious attempts to collect information for its own purposes. This doesn’t include incidents like the Cambridge Analytica fiasco of last year,…

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