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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by rhizome on Saturday March 17, 2018 @02:57PM (#16608448)
FB has known all of this since it happened two years ago and only admitted it when a journalist asked them about it.
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by IAmEveryone on Saturday March 17, 2018 @03:10PM (#16608510)
Yes. But the method that was used to siphon the data out of Facebook is no longer available.
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by rhizome on Sunday March 18, 2018 @04:30PM (#16614131)
Correct, and we now know the issue is that someone who had legit access sold the data.
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