I’m not 100% familiar with the Cambridge Analytica situation, but wasn’t their tooling based around user data rather than just keeping track of ads? From the a

I’m not 100% familiar with the Cambridge Analytica situation, but wasn’t their tooling based around user data rather than just keeping track of ads? From the article: > Facebook claimed that we were violating its terms of service, that we were compromising user privacy, and that it had no choice but to shut us down because of an agreement it has with the Federal Trade Commission. All of these claims are wrong. Ad Observer collects information only about advertisers, not about our volunteers or their friends, and the FTC has stated that our research does not violate its consent decree with Facebook. If these NYU researchers have in fact created an identical system with identical strategies and goals, and are lying blatantly in the Guardian, that should be big news! I’m somewhat skeptical about the equivalence here.