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Forbes Reveals How Facebook and Facebook Advertisers are Invading Your Privacy for Fun and Profit

It is no secret that Facebook harvests the personal information of its users in order to sell it to advertisers. From allowing advertisers, to allowing marketers to match your phone number and email address to your Facebook profile and allowing Facebook to follow you around from site to site, Facebook has happily turned a profit to the detriment of their users’ privacy. Nissen tech lead Shinichi Yokote outlined how they use a tool called “True Teller,” which takes all of the data mined from Facebook to turn it into the data that would be useful for Nissen’s personalized targeting.