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So in other words, there is nothing wrong with paying for data from CA or others?

• throwaway5752 7y ago
  Depends on how the data was acquired, wouldn't you say? Wasn't there some problems in the news about how CA acquired their FB metadata that was confirmed by one of their contractors in Canada? I think the better question is "is paying Facebook to generate models and run advertising campaigns on those identified by those models right?"
  • shadowgovt 7y ago
    The problem was they broke Facebook's TOS. ... and Facebook thinks that's a problem because it's using Facebook to compete with Facebook, not for other moral reasons. They were breaking the part of the TOS where app developers were banned from trying to reconstitute the social network dataset outside of Facebook via secondary signal.
• harikb 7y ago
  Is there any evidence Obama campaign made people install apps in the pretext of a poll and harvested FB data? Don't confuse using "FB advertising platform" with "stealing FB data outside of their terms and selling it" If CA was not involved and Trump campaign merely used FB advertising, we wouldn't be arguing about this particular point. Still bad on FB, but that is a different matter.