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Facebook was selling other people's data. This is about accessing your own data. Both are about about having control over your data. There is no contradiction.
by ahartmetz 7y ago
Facebook was selling other people's data. This is about accessing your own data. Both are about about having control over your data. There is no contradiction.
- closeparen 7y agoThere was no sale. Cambridge Analytica used the free, public API just like any other FB Platform developer, including 15-year-old me. Users clicked through OAuth consent screens to share their data with its personality test app. It being a social network, much of that data involved their friends. Bank transactions are not "your own data" any more than what CA scraped from personality quiz users was "their own data." In both cases, there are people on the other side of each record.
- mantap 7y agoThere's definitely a quantative difference between the amount of other individuals' personal data in your bank records vs in your social network account.