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Ronny jackson is under investigation. jackson was tapped to lead the department of veterans affairs but withdrew after allegations that he created a hostile work environment as well as accusations he was drinking on the job and casually distributing prescription drugs. it looks like companies may have added persol information users shared with facebook. the social media platform shared data with 60 device makers including amazon, apple, blackberry, microsoft and samsung, which started before facebook was widely available. the company says 22 of the deals have now ended. now, the deals allowe...

Information users had uploaded to the site and displacing it in a way that didn't mesh with their privacy settings at the time. the ftc settlement projected on facebook 20 years of checkups. yes, maybe it's the case of the election gets in the way or zuckerberg gets dragged on the coals when he appears before the house and senate next week. the ftc and other bodies can penalize this company. it can put forward fines. those fines can be well into the millions of dollars. european regulators are asking the same questions and they certainly have no qualms about stopping down a u.s. tech company. ...

Companies that have a huge pile of consumer data on you and me, axiom, data logic and epsilon. they have dossiers from everything from income levels to what we buy, even social security numbers. facebook will match all that data to your fprofile and use that to create better target groups for its ads. until now, they could only base ads on information users provided. but that's all changing now. facebook is quick to point out that all of the data is anonymous, that advertisers, they will never know the identities of people seeing ads, but still. ew. >> can you opt out of ads? >> good news is y...