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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by threeseed on Saturday March 17, 2018 @04:29PM (#16608906)
Sorry what are you talking about ?

Please provide some evidence that anyone with money and know how can harvest tens of millions of accounts from Facebook.

Your example does not address this and seems just like normal Facebook targeting to me.

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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by thisisit on Sunday March 18, 2018 @12:41PM (#16612770)
Pardon my ignorance but what was Cambridge Analytica doing if not using advanced analytics for Facebook targeting?

I don't think Facebook has a section where someone can talk about what stocks they might hold. So, if the HF was able to target specific people who owned P&G stocks then I think it was an efficient targeting, maybe not as much of scale of US elections but enough to turn the voting in their favor.

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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by JPGalt on Saturday March 17, 2018 @07:08PM (#16609533)
What? You can scrape that kind of data with a simply Python application...
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by threeseed on Sunday March 18, 2018 @04:30AM (#16610975)
You are either lying or completely ignorant because this is not possible.

The data that this app obtained was far deeper than what Google can crawl e.g. what a person liked.

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