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Re:Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica by manicdee on Wednesday March 11, 2020 @08:53PM (#22552419)
Facebook was responsible for that information, they shared it with someone they shouldn’t have and then tried to cover their butts when the inevitable data breach occurred.

This is Australian privacy law we’re dealing with, not a Facebook EULA.

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Re:Australia sues Facebook over Cambridge Analytica by manfredo on Thursday March 12, 2020 @12:36PM (#22558634)
No, they shared it with university researchers for academic purposes which is what users agreed to. Said researchers turned around and used it for commercial and political purposes.

Sharing the data with Cambridge Analytica (for the purported use) wasn't the problem. Cambridge Analytica lying about what the data was uses for is the problem.

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