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Re:Based on his testimony today, Mark Zuckerberg puts users ... by TheCoelacanth on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @11:36AM (#16812213)
Equating what Obama/Clinton did with what Cambridge Analytica did is a false equivalence. The data Obama/Clinton collected was given voluntarily with users understanding more or less what it was going to be used for through apps that were overtly connected to their campaigns. The data Cambridge Analytica collected was collected by tricking users into giving it to them with fake quizzes with users having no idea what the data was going to be used for.

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