Find out what Facebook is sharing about you and how keep more privacy online

The information of some 87 million users was available to political data firm Cambridge Analytica without their knowledge. Facebook began informing those users this week and provides access to its privacy settings. But there are proactive steps you can take as well.

John Moore/Getty Images A Pulitzer winner takes an even deeper look at evictions and finds an ongoing crisis for poor Americans Matthew Desmond has teamed up with Princeton researchers and students to build up the nation's first database of people kicked out of their homes in the United States. They found 83 million records — 2.3 million every year, as wages have stagnated and housing costs have soared. It's an economic trauma that leaves a permanent mark on your record. The typical eviction case: A family paying 60 percent to 80 percent of its income for a place to live, with no government assistance. Dina Rudick/Boston Globe via Getty Images This American manufacturer is on the ropes, and while many say good riddance, others scramble to save up a lifetime supply Online haters have compared NECCO's brittle sugar disks and seasonal conversation hearts to chalk or antacid tablets, but retailers are stocking up. One website's manager says a customer tried to buy out its entire inventory. "The person actually started to cry, and they said they couldn't imagine a world without their NECCO wafers." For a Maine sleepaway camp, losing the wafers even represents a sort of economic collapse.. NurPhoto via Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised Congress he'll do better at safekeeping your personal data — but you don't have to wait for him The social network provided a tool this week to see whether your data was exposed to a Trump-aligned political operative before the 2016 election, but there are other settings on the site to double-check if you want to upgrade your privacy. Google and many other online companies compile your data too, but there are tools for erasing your tracks as you move around the Web. Bombaert Patrick/Getty Images/EyeEm You can reinvent yourself while staying connected to your spouse, he says — but do keep an eye out for the nanny James Sexton believes in marriage, even though he has helped euthanize more than a thousand of them as a divorce lawyer. Through the years, he says he has collected a bouquet of what-not-to-do marital advice. “I'm not speculating, I'm doing ethnographic research. I'm like the Margaret Mead of divorce here, I'm sitting there with my nose in it.” He has put it all in a book, If You’re In My Office, It’s Already Too Late. Gary Miller/Getty Images In 1972, he was bigger than Willie Nelson. Up-and-coming stars covered his songs. But his next album took a few decades For a little while, Willis Alan Ramsey was the future of a certain Austin-centric brand of twangy folk. His songs were crossover hits, and he got a big record deal from a peaking Leon Russell. But after startling success and a whirlwind of touring, he retreated to the studio. And then another studio. And then another. Forty-six years later, he may finally have enough for a sophomore record. He has been able to take his time thanks to royalties from one song, a huge hit for another group: "Muskrat Love." You received this message because you're subscribed to our Best of NPR emails. |  Unsubscribe  |  Privacy Policy | NPR 1111 N. CAPITOL ST. NE WASHINGTON DC 20002