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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by thomzi12 on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:58AM (#16612220)
Did you not read the article? Millions of users took a personality test that had nothing to do with politics, and that data was sold to the Trump campaign for targeting.

When did Obama’s campaign ever do that?

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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by willstrafach on Sunday March 18, 2018 @01:03PM (#16612888)
I think a lot of commenters did not read the article at all and are misunderstanding the “issue” to be use of big data, versus the fact that this specific data was obtained on tens of millions of people in what appears to be a very unethical manner.
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by dang on Monday March 19, 2018 @06:50PM (#16624070)
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by hanspeter on Sunday March 18, 2018 @03:29PM (#16613781)
270.000 users.
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by SolarUpNote on Sunday March 18, 2018 @10:51PM (#16615925)
... and all of their ‘friends’, totaling over 50 million
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by hanspeter on Tuesday March 20, 2018 @02:04AM (#16626332)
Nope. It was not technical possible to share your friends' data in 2014.
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Re:50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica i... by muddi900 on Monday March 19, 2018 @11:55AM (#16619366)
>Did you not read the article?

No he didn't. On purpose

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