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Facebook has teamed up with Ray-Ban to come up with a pair of smart sun glasses that absolutely nobody asked for.The design is as creepy as it is familiar.

From Facebook?

Who would want to spend $299 on these?

Facebook: Taping Over Camera LED on Our Glasses is a TOS Violation

In an attempt to convince its two billion users that it truly cares about their privacy, Facebook is opening a number of pop-up privacy check-up cafes.

Privacy for the People

After all, it's up to you to protect your data — not Facebook.

Facebook is Opening Privacy Check-Up Cafes, for Some Reason

"Millions of Facebook Inc photos, status updates and other content posted since 2014" have been combed over by hundreds of outsourced workers in Hyderabad.

Outsourcing Privacy

For years, millions of private Facebook posts were hand-labeled by third-party contractors.

Outsourced Workers Are Training AIs With Your Private FB Posts

For now, AI is too blunt a tool to identify hate speech well. But it's too big a task for humans alone.

Facebook Needs Humans *And* Algorithms To Filter Hate Speech

You probably shouldn't be surprised. But the reason why is kind of crazy.

So, Yeah: Facebook Is Mining Your Instagram Photos, Too

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