# A Facebook patent would use your family photos to target ads - The Verge

<https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/15/18096724/facebook-photo-family-demographics-data-mining-patent-application>

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## What Jamie wrote

I don’t think most users realize how much private data can be gleaned from your photos. I won’t store my photos with Google or for sure a social media company. This patent shows just some of the use cases that companies like Facebook can get from mining your personal photos.

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- [WT81: Weekly Thing #81 / Nov 24, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/81/), Notable Links 📌

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