Marketplace Tech Report for Friday, April 13, 2012
So we know that Facebook gathers our personal information. It knows our friends, our significant others, the music we like, where we work. It’s enough to raise a lot of privacy concerns for a lot of people. But the social media site is trying to calm some of those worries. Facebook has just announced it'll roll out a feature that will let users check out more of the information it has gathered. Still, that’s still only a fraction of the information Facebook has.
So we know that Facebook gathers our personal information. It knows our friends, our significant others, the music we like, where we work. It’s enough to raise a lot of privacy concerns for a lot of people. But the social media site is trying to calm some of those worries. Facebook has just announced it’ll roll out a feature that will let users check out more of the information it has gathered. Still, that’s still only a fraction of the information Facebook has.
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