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This article practically comes off as apologetic for Facebook and absolutely ignores the point of outrage for a lot of people. Great example of language designe

This article practically comes off as apologetic for Facebook and absolutely ignores the point of outrage for a lot of people. Great example of language designed to lead. "Facebook, of course, lets you target exactly those boring, old demographic qualities" - just boring old mundane everyday Facebook. No worries here "To be clear, what Cambridge Analytica did was somewhat worse" - Just a bit worse, but not too far from the norm "Facebook no longer allows anyone to do this, thankfully, and hasn’t for years" - this has been a non-issue for years, what are you worried about?

dalbasal 9y ago
Exactly what I meant. This is made possible by the way the issue is framed, as a data security issue. Well, it isn't hard to imagine an identical scenario playing out where no data was "leaked," with everything being legal and normative data collection. If FB had done with their own data whatever these 3rd parties are alleged to have done... would any laws have been broken?