Why Facebook is collecting so much personal data
By Bloomberg
20 December 2018 |
1:40 pm
Rich Greenfield, a BTIG analyst, and Bloomberg's Sarah Frier discuss the report from the New York Times that Facebook Inc. had allowed more than 150 companies to access more personal data from users than it had disclosed.
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