When trawling through online sources to try and find out Facebook's rules on privacy I came across an article by Dailymail (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2212178/New-privacy-row-Facebook-begins-selling-access-users-boost-ailing-profits.html\) claiming that Facebook have been "Allowing companies to trawl through its 900m users looking for email addresses and phone numbers so it can better target adverts".
This means if a Facebook user recently went on holiday travel companies will be able to target adverts at this user. Tailoring adverts to the user. Sharing private information without the users consent is a clear breech of the Data Protection Act and certainly makes me think about what private information I will be sharing with Facebook in the future.
*Facebook claim that they have since updated their privacy settings and no longer allow third parties to access user information.*
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