Your new Facebook privacy is really bumming out presidential campaigns

In 2007, Facebook �� then with 58 million users — opened its vault of user data, allowing researchers, startups, and political campaigns to access its "social graph," or networks of friends, "likes," and interests. Starting in May, Facebook dialed back access, citing user concerns about their information being shared without their knowledge, and those changes are "rippling through academia, business and presidential politics," say Deepa Seetharaman and Elizabeth Dwoskin at The Wall Street Journal. They continue:

Some academic researchers and entrepreneurs are upset with the changes, while others are going through Facebook's new process to mine some of the recently restricted data troves. Nick Soman, who sold his chat app Reveal after Facebook cut off access, is philosophical. "Facebook giveth and Facebook taketh away," he says. Read more at The Wall Street Journal, and also check out their graphic of what user information is still available to outside eyes — it might just make you revisit your privacy settings.

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