Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i...
by cloakandswagger on Saturday March 17, 2018 @10:57PM
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> Isn’t harvesting data prohibited by Facebook TOS?
This should be the main takeaway from this article--that Facebook relies on the honor system for protecting user data.
Breaking a company's TOS isn't a crime in and of itself, and social media data has been used for political targeting for years now. Insinuating that Trump won because of a nefarious brain control operation fueled by data from a "data breach" is irresponsible.
This should be the main takeaway from this article--that Facebook relies on the honor system for protecting user data.
Breaking a company's TOS isn't a crime in and of itself, and social media data has been used for political targeting for years now. Insinuating that Trump won because of a nefarious brain control operation fueled by data from a "data breach" is irresponsible.