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At a New York Privacy Pop-Up, Facebook Sells Itself

On the edge of the annual holiday market in Bryant Park, Facebook erected a narrow kiosk, which looked like a mid-century modern shipping container, and filled it with employees ready to answer questions about privacy, ads, and how the company collects your data.

And as Molly McKew wrote in WIRED earlier this year, "It doesnt matter that Facebook isnt 'selling data'an oft-repeated theme.

But the staff there were also providing a genuinely useful service, one that people might have applauded more widely if a nonprofit hosted the event instead.

Even if youre angry that Cambridge Analytica scooped up your data, its hard to know exactly what the firm may have done with it.

At the Bryant Park kiosk, people were more concerned with learning about their News Feed and seeing ads for things theyre actually interested in.

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Author: Wired

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