Not saying I condone it, but if you have a Facebook account you should expect that they will collect and use as much data as they can about you.<p>If you don’t wish to be targeted with highly personalized ads, you should immediately delete your Facebook account and not use their services in any way.<p>Agreeing to use their services is agreeing to these practices. Now, I think people should be made aware of these things, and they should know when they create an account that this is what they are going to do.<p>Personally, I don’t really have a problem with it. Also saying that they “give advertisers access to” this data is a little disingenuous. As an advertiser I don’t have access to any of your information. I can only tell Facebook who to target, in this case with information that I already have about you, that you have (presumably) given to me with consent. Facebook takes care of the rest. It’s not as though I personally have access to a bunch of your information. Or even that any human being at Facebook does. No person is looking at your data, it’s all just algorithms.