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“A recently-published paper entitled Self-Censorship on Facebook reveals that Facebook has the ability to track what you’re typing, as you type it, regardless of whether or not you publish it.
It may sound like a digital privacy advocate’s worst nightmare, but Facebook assures it’s not interested in collecting the content of your deleted text – only in analyzing whether or not you’ve actually deleted any.
Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer worked with Sauvik Das, a summer software engineer intern at Facebook and Ph.D. student at Carnegie Mellon University, to study the data of 3.9 million English-speaking Facebook users over the course of 17 days.”* The Young Turks hosts Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian break it down.
*Read more here from Lauren O’Neil / CBC News:
http://www.cbc.ca/newsblogs/yourcommunity/2013/12/facebook-collects-aborted-status-updates-self-censorship-study-reveals.html
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