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Facebook is disclosing to third parties that its users have an "interest" in a medical condition although FB purports not to disclose users' medical conditions.

Per @refurb in the comments, when people have an "interest" in a medical condition, they almost always actually suffer from that condition.

It's almost like the algorithms are in charge over there, unsupervised.




I don't think it's an algorithm, I think it's a bunch of executives who think they are really smart because they found a loophole in the law.




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