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From what I've read, CA wasn't Facebook's customer. CA bought the data from a researcher who was authorized to slurp the data.
by rhizome 9y ago
From what I've read, CA wasn't Facebook's customer. CA bought the data from a researcher who was authorized to slurp the data.
- arca_vorago 9y agoInteresting, do you have a source on that. I would like to see the agreement researchers have to agree to to use fb data. I'm guessing this includes private profile information not public? Or is it a platform level EULA or something like that? I wonder how FB views public scraping. Shades of webcrawlers.
- phy6 9y agoNY Time article "The technique had been developed at Cambridge University’s Psychometrics Center. The center declined to work with Cambridge Analytica, but Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian-American psychology professor at the university, was willing. Dr. Kogan built his own app and in June 2014 began harvesting data for Cambridge Analytica." https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambridge-analytica-explained.html https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/technology/facebook-cambr...
- arca_vorago 9y agoThank you.