What is the deal with Facebook Privacy right now?

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facebook changed the privacy settings so that your information is available to advertisers to be able to show you adds based on that info. you've probably noticed that the ads on the right are usually for bands you like and things you are interested in. rather than give you the option to activate this, it was done automatically, with you having to go and manually turn it off. although its not a security issue (these are things that you have posted online, so unless you don't want people to know, you wouldn't want to post it on facebook) the controversy is over the fact that facebook users are seen by facebook as unpaid workers who are making them money in every possible way.