What Facebook Knows About You and How [EXPLAINER] | FRONTLINE
October 29, 2018
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as posted by the channelYou’ve heard a lot about the data Facebook gathers on its users. Examine what Facebook knows, and how it knows it.
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In “What Facebook Knows about You and How,” examine the platform’s use of so-called “shadow profiles,” to the main ways Facebook tracks you on the web, even when you’re not on Facebook and more.
This digital video accompanies FRONTLINE’s twonight investigation of Facebook. For more on Facebook, data, and privacy, watch The Facebook Dilemma, here
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