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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by scotu on Saturday March 17, 2018 @08:28PM (#16609869)
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

Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by scotu on Monday March 19, 2018 @10:38PM (#16625569)
well, this seems to go deeper then I was anticipating. What I wrote above might not be accurate since the story is still evolving....
Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by OrganicMSG on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @04:34PM (#16632315)
Fair play for saying.