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Re:Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyo... by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 29, 2022 @01:44AM (#33016883)
> An app downloading data on behalf of the user is basically what Cambridge Analytica was doing.

That's half of it. Is the app sending the data back to the app makers? If not then it's extremely different.

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Re:Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyo... by likpok on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:10AM (#33021791)
If the app is downloading the data, what’s stopping it from sending the data to the app makers?

Previously FB paid a 5 billion dollar fine because of insufficiently policing third part app developers.

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