Article 205CY Facebook isn't looking out for your privacy. It wants your data for itself

Facebook isn't looking out for your privacy. It wants your data for itself

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Alex Hern
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Don't be fooled by the social network's hostile response to Admiral's plan to price car insurance based on posts

Facebook's terms of service are pretty clear, by the standards of such things. (I should know: I once read 150,000 words of small print in a week to see what I would find out.) There are very few random blocks of all-caps, it's fairly short, and it has hyperlinks in it. You don't even have to scroll down to find one of the key sections, which lays out what it means when you share information with Facebook.

"You own all of the content and information you post on Facebook," the company assures you, "and you can control how it is shared through your privacy and application settings."

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