Facebook sued for alleged monitoring of users’ private messages

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Reuters / Thomas Hodel

Social media giant Facebook is being sued for the alleged monitoring of its users’ private messages in order to gather more consumer data that it in turn shares with marketers.

A federal lawsuit filed Thursday in San Jose, California alleges that Facebook traces the contents of users’ private messages, including links to other websites, "to improve its marketing algorithms and increase its ability to profit from data about Facebook users,” The Los Angeles Times reported.

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This so true.  If I go internet surfing just looking at products, the next time I'm on Facebook, I see the same exact products I was looking at before.  I rarily have any private messages that pertain to products, so they don't see anything with my messages, but this other thing I mentioned about surfing the net, that really bugs me!!!