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FACEBOOK Lucas Nolan Breitbart News 7-15-19 Forbes reports that Australian cyber researcher Edin Jusupovic recently claimed on Twitter that Facebook is embedding “hidden codes” in photos that users upload to the site to track how many people see and share the photos. The “IPTC special instructions” that Jusupovic describes are essentially digital watermarks embedded in image metadata by Facebook, which the company can then access again at a later date. One user on Reddit explained it simply stating: “It is yet another way to learn associations between people.” JB >>>>>