Please provide evidence then.

I have never seen Facebook allowing large scale harvesting of their data.

And it would qualify as data breaches in places like EU which do not tolerate this sort of thing.

Well, they may not officially permit it in public, however they clearly allow it, otherwise we wouldn't be here.

do you understand how this data ended up in CA's hands? Regular facebook app asked persmission to get data to it's users, one by one. It then retained the data and shared without facebook or their users permission (and against FB terms). Then facebook realized this data was shared, required CA to delete all of it. CA agreed. CA didn't delete. That's how we are here

I'm no facebook fan by the way, but there's no reason for facebook to sell their most important asset when they can allow you to pay to use it, without ever seeing it

well, this seems to go deeper then I was anticipating. What I wrote above might not be accurate since the story is still evolving....

Fair play for saying.