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Does Facebook use sensitive data for advertising purposes?

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Facebook labels 67% of its users with potential sensitive interests, sometimes at great risk to the user.

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          Communications of the ACM  Volume 64, Issue 1
          January 2021
          115 pages
          ISSN:0001-0782
          EISSN:1557-7317
          DOI:10.1145/3444848
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