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Get Ready for the Next Big Privacy Backlash Against Facebook – mining emotion
But earlier this month, The Australian uncovered something that felt like a breach in the social contract: a leaked confidential document prepared by Facebook that revealed the company had offered advertisers the opportunity to target 6.4 million younger users, some only 14 years old, during moments of psychological vulnerability, such as when they felt “worthless,” “insecure,” “stressed,” “defeated,” “anxious,” and like a “failure.”
See the full, long story here: https://www.wired.com/2017/05/welcome-next-phase-facebook-backlash/