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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by PragmaticPulp on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:41PM (#29986349)
It doesn't even make logical sense. Why would the company give up their edge in the market?

Where does one go to buy this Facebook or Google data? Who's buying it? Surely these things would have come up in all of the Congressional hearings, right?

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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by newfonewhodis on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:38PM (#29987123)
Data flows from and in and out of data warehouses is very commonly known now [1]. It would be very surprising to me that FB, Google and Amazon aren't participating in that marketplace.

[0] https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/12/06/the-popular-family-..., https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/09/30/theres-a-multibilli..., https://themarkup.org/privacy/2021/03/25/i-tried-to-use-the-... (more investigations have been done by WIRED as well).

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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by bastardoperator on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @04:48PM (#29986442)
Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook user data with help from Facebook... You go straight to Facebook or Google and become a "partner".
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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by celestialcheese on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:02PM (#29986653)
This was a long time ago CA did this with the personality quiz apps (2013 IIRC). It's incredibly onerous and in some cases impossible to get this data legally from Facebook anymore.
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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by bastardoperator on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:47PM (#29987229)
Facebook was fined in 2019 by the FTC for 5 billion dollars due to privacy violations. Despite the fact that data was trading hands up until 2016, I don't think it was that long ago...
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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by pb7 on Tuesday January 18, 2022 @05:59PM (#29987365)
Exactly, it was a scandal because data left Facebook's silos because in normal operations it does not.
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Re:Google: The harmful consequences of Congress’s anti-tech ... by rgavuliak on Wednesday January 19, 2022 @06:54AM (#29992508)
Yeah and then they gave access to chat data for companies like Spotify https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/facebook-...
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