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Facebook paid people to gather data on usage habits

January 30, 2019January 30, 2019Jefferson Graham, USA TODAYComments Off on Facebook paid people to gather data on usage habits

Social network tells TechCrunch it distributed the "Facebook Research" app to learn more about users habits.

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