Facebook blasts cancer patient with funeral home advertisements – more privacy invasions to come

‘In the modern, text-heavy vernacular, consider it an “OMG” moment.

Facebook is at it again, using its advertisement targeting software to commit one of the most heinous acts of callousness you could think of. More on that in a moment.

First, some background. According to Mike Kreiger at the Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, in February he reported on a very disturbing finding by Salim Varani, who he wrote on his own personal blog that Facebook was, essentially, a privacy nightmare.’

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