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A comment on 50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach. Parent comment

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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