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Cambridge Analytica harvested Facebook user data with help from Facebook... You go straight to Facebook or Google and become a "partner".

• celestialcheese 5y ago
  This was a long time ago CA did this with the personality quiz apps (2013 IIRC). It's incredibly onerous and in some cases impossible to get this data legally from Facebook anymore.
  • bastardoperator 5y ago
    Facebook was fined in 2019 by the FTC for 5 billion dollars due to privacy violations. Despite the fact that data was trading hands up until 2016, I don't think it was that long ago...
    • pb7 5y ago
      Exactly, it was a scandal because data left Facebook's silos because in normal operations it does not.
  • rgavuliak 5y ago
    Yeah and then they gave access to chat data for companies like Spotify https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/facebook-shared-user-data-private-messages-netflix-spotify-amazon-microsoft-sony https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/facebook-...