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Did you not read the article? Millions of users took a personality test that had nothing to do with politics, and that data was sold to the Trump campaign for t
by thomzi12 9y ago
Did you not read the article? Millions of users took a personality test that had nothing to do with politics, and that data was sold to the Trump campaign for targeting.
When did Obama’s campaign ever do that?
- willstrafach 9y agoI think a lot of commenters did not read the article at all and are misunderstanding the “issue” to be use of big data, versus the fact that this specific data was obtained on tens of millions of people in what appears to be a very unethical manner.
- hanspeter 9y ago270.000 users.
- SolarUpNote 9y ago... and all of their ‘friends’, totaling over 50 million
- hanspeter 9y agoNope. It was not technical possible to share your friends' data in 2014.
- muddi900 9y ago>Did you not read the article? No he didn't. On purpose
- dang 9y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html