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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by JumpCrisscross on Sunday May 12, 2019 @04:01PM (#19894169)
> it sounds like Cambridge Analytica was overblown, in the sense that the information wasn’t as useful as claimed

The consequences of the breach were overblown. Its scale and depth, however, were not.

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Re:Facebook sues analytics firm Rankwave over data misuse by e40 on Sunday May 12, 2019 @05:16PM (#19894632)
The "overblown" part refers solely to the predictive powers of the dataset.
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