"But Cambridge Analytica is a scandal that isn't a scandal: Everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform knew that for several years, the platf

"But Cambridge Analytica is a scandal that isn't a scandal: Everyone who has ever worked on or with the Facebook platform knew that for several years, the platform made data available to third-party developers by design. The scandal is that the world finally understands the ramifications of that state of affairs." But could the world "understand the ramifications" based on reading terms of service and click-through permissions or did the world come to understand the ramifications through disclosures from "whistleblowers" and investigative journalism? "We don't sell people's data. Period." - David Baser, Facebook https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/ https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/04/data-off-facebook/ According to the former Zuckerberg speechwriter, Facebook shares access to people's data with third-party app developers. Does Facebook share people's data with academic researchers? Why? Can users opt-out of this sharing? Are they opted-in by default? How much data has Facebook shared in the past? Do Mr. Zuckerberg, Ms. Sandberg, Mr. Baser and others at Facebook believe people would only be concerned with "sale" of their data, but not with sharing access to it with unidentified third parties?