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The amount of media furore over this at the time, really made me think CA was doing something illegal. Was that just Gawker/Buzzfeed journalism?

• gruez 21d ago
  They had a facebook app (disguised as a quiz) that scraped the profile data of the user using it, as well as their friends. It's the latter part that was considered shady, but it was all allowed by facebook. Moreover it's not too different than similar "growth hack" tactics that other startups use to this day, eg. linkedin scraping your contacts data. Their clients being right-wing didn't help, either.
  • noir_lord 21d ago
    > It's the latter part that was considered shady Because it was shady, deception is deception.
    • brcmthrowaway 21d ago
      Shady business practices are accepted now.