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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by bmsleight_ on Sunday March 18, 2018 @05:44AM (#16611154)
> Where any laws broken here ? Yes. The article mentions "British data protection laws were probably broken". NB Facebook lawyers have been trying to push the Guardian around. - https://twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/974995682124804099

IMHO, but I am not a lawyer - clearly the law was broken, Data Protection Act.

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