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Facebook helps phone companies to gather user data and creditworthiness: Report

Nabanita Dutta

News Editor
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The report says Facebook has provided phone companies with the users' private data without their consent to evaluate the users' creditworthiness. FB has provided interests, locations, phone carriers, friends grouping without informing the users. The data scientists of Facebook are working on 'Actionable insights' program in which the algorithm segregates between users with good and bad credit history, the report added.