Re:Trump’s data-hungry, invasive app
by 0xy on Sunday June 21, 2020 @08:58PM
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This isn't novel, and may even be less invasive than tactics used in 2016 by the Trump campaign and in 2012 by the Obama campaign.
Both of those campaigns siphoned data from Facebook without consent of any of the users. Trump famously used Cambridge Analytica, while Obama for America's Director of Data Integration and Media Analytics built up a huge database of every American voter using data siphoned from the API used by Cambridge Analytica. [1]
At least now they're explicitly asking for permission (and you actually have to download an uber-partisan app in the first place).
Both of those campaigns siphoned data from Facebook without consent of any of the users. Trump famously used Cambridge Analytica, while Obama for America's Director of Data Integration and Media Analytics built up a huge database of every American voter using data siphoned from the API used by Cambridge Analytica. [1]
At least now they're explicitly asking for permission (and you actually have to download an uber-partisan app in the first place).
[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/facebooks-ru...