Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by yters on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @10:51AM
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What did Obama's campaign do? I remember a lot of news when he was elected praising his revolutionary social network mining team that got out the youth vote. How is this different than what Cambridge Analytica did?
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Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by dragonwriter on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:20PM
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> What did Obama's campaign do? I remember a lot of news when he was elected praising his revolutionary social network mining team that got out the youth vote. How is this different than what Cambridge Analytica did?
The Obama campaign engagement was overt, users knew they were connecting to a political campaign and whose, and the entity with API access didn't transfer the data for radically different uses than the overt ones to a third party.
Re:WhatsApp co-founder tells everyone to delete Facebook
by mike10010100 on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @04:12PM
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>How is this different than what Cambridge Analytica did?
The other company didn't spread fake news, conduct honeypot blackmailing schemes, and wasn't funded by one of America's largest geopolitical foes.