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Facebook are happy to provide a database of black people [0] to advertisers. People don't choose their race, but they can choose their religion. Arguably, allow

• kevinburke 10y ago
  That may be distasteful but there is a wide, wide gap between letting advertisers target ads to groups based on ethnicity, and sending datasets of people with a certain ethnicity/religion to advertisers or to the government. The pledge is mostly focused on the latter.
  • 1ris 10y ago
    As if governments would take no as a answer. If the data is there it's accessible.
    • kevinburke 10y ago
      In fact, they do. The USG was unsuccessful in compelling Apple to provide a "golden key" to decrypt the San Bernardino iPhone, and the USG went along with that. People can refuse and the government can choose to try to send executives to jail, or issue fines, but that comes with bad PR and companies can and do fight those as well.