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Re:Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyo... by Kbelicius on Thursday September 29, 2022 @05:44AM (#33018294)
> An app downloading data on behalf of the user is basically what Cambridge Analytica was doing.

Nowhere close. CA was asking permissions from users and then got the data from those users and all of their FB friends who did not agree to anything nor did they know their data is being collected.

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Re:Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for everyo... by likpok on Thursday September 29, 2022 @11:07AM (#33021747)
This is exactly the crux of the problem. Consider Alice and bob, where bob used CA and Alice did not. Alice shares her data with bob. What can Bob do with it? Can he share it with CA?

It’s messy! Another similar problem in this vein is data about you that does not belong to you. Who owns your purchase history from Amazon, or which pages you clicked on? You? Amazon?

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