Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i...
by nl on Saturday March 17, 2018 @08:15PM
(#16609824)
This simply isn’t true.
I’ve spent lots of time and money getting data out of FB.
You can pay to get anonymized topic data via DataSift and others, you can pay to run ads against users you have email addresses for (but you don’t get their data) or you can scrape (which is against the terms of service and they have an aggressive anti bot system to stop it - unlike Twitter).
Their political support systems are analytics support to ad buying.
I’ve spent lots of time and money getting data out of FB.
You can pay to get anonymized topic data via DataSift and others, you can pay to run ads against users you have email addresses for (but you don’t get their data) or you can scrape (which is against the terms of service and they have an aggressive anti bot system to stop it - unlike Twitter).
Their political support systems are analytics support to ad buying.