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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by minimaxir on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:41PM (#17708208)
Facebook closed up a lot of API endpoints after the CA incident became big (including public page post data, to my annoyance).
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by ehsankia on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:56PM (#17708330)
And this is one of those APIs that is closed. This application is intentionally going around it, and if any data ends up leaking, all the people in this thread demanding access to data will be the first to attack Facebook for not doing a better job at guarding user data.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by freeone3000 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:36PM (#17708718)
It seems like they were able to get the data just fine, so they're not guarding user data now. I think the best way for facebook to protect this data is to not have it.
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Re:Facebook Wanted Gizmodo to Kill Investigative Tool by Ajedi32 on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @01:46PM (#17708801)
Before the CA incident became big actually. Most of the APIs used by Cambridge Analytica (in particular, the ones that let apps access data about a person's friends) were removed all the way back in 2014.
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