Facebook Probably Lied About Targeting Teens With Ads – Screen Rant

Facebook’s new policy allows advertisers only to collect information about age, gender, and location of teens, but its systems are apparently exempt. New research has revealed that Facebook is still collecting a huge amount of information on young users via its in-house systems for ad-targeting, months after it limited the scope of data collection by third parties for the same purpose in the name of child safety. To recall, Facebook announced back in July that advertisers will only be able to use age, gender, and location of users under the age of 18 years in order to show them targeted ads.  The rules were supposed to be implemented across all social platforms it owns viz. Facebook, Instagram, and Messengers. Following the policy change, advertisers were blocked from collecting data across interests or activities such as likes and purchasing across other apps and websites. Back then, the company — which now goes by the name Meta — claimed that young users are not well equipped to make decisions regarding what ads they see and how to limit the ad-targeting on their own.  Well, it appears that those rules applied only for advertisers, and not Facebook itself. As per collaborative research conducted by Fairplay, Reset…
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