Recent reports alleging to Facebook's disinterest in user privacy make for harrowing reading.
Until these reports surfaced, many users were unaware of how brazenly their data and personally identifiable information were being merchandised.
It is natural for companies to want to harness the power of the data they are collecting, but mining private messages and scraping user data can open a company up to risk.
|Sign of the times
It's worth noting that Facebook is not the only Silicon Valley giant leveraging user data to make money. Google, Apple, Amazon and other companies collect far more data than most realize.
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