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Google I’ll buy, but Facebook does sell your data. NYT has been hitting that story pretty hard.



Facebook does not sell your data. Facebook licensed data for very specific use cases (e.g. allowing feature phone developers to create feature phone FB apps, allowing individual apps to access data with your permission) but in both of those cases (all the NYT cases about FB data privacy in-fact) they did not get paid.




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