Social Media Privacy Policies Come With Unexpected Loopholes

By now, most users think they know the social privacy media privacy landscape, but a Canadian research project found some surprising loopholes in the companies' privacy policies.

By now, most users think they know the social privacy media privacy landscape, but a Canadian research project found some surprising loopholes in the companies’ privacy policies.

We expect online services to collect user data and access it to serve advertising, but we’ve also come to expect that the services will release only general information about users to third parties. A company might tell an advertiser, for example, about a male user in San Francisco in the 25-45 age group, but they wouldn’t identify that user by name, email address or race.

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