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A hidden Facebook feature shows advertisers your information

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How Facebook uses a hidden feature to share your information with advertisers

This week, Facebook revealed that security breaches on the social media site could expose personal data for approximately 50 million users. This comes as the company faces renewed criticisms for utilizing a hidden function to share users' contact information, like phone numbers and emails, with advertisers. Gizmodo reporter Kashmir Hill joins Hari Sreenivasan with more.

09/30/2018

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