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Facebook mobileIn an ever-escalating battle to own the Internet, Facebook is going after Google's digital advertising empire, using your personal information as ammunition.Atlas, the ad-serving platform Facebook purchased from Microsoft in 2013, will apply Facebook user data to sell ads on websites outside the social network. That's not as creepy as it might sound, or rather, it's not any creepier than anything else that happens to your not-so-personal-anymore info already free-floating on the Internet.Facebook's repository of humans will provide basic information to target ads bought through Atlas and track their performance, The Information reports.

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