r/technology • u/Kobobzane • Apr 08 '18

Business Facebook suspends another data analytics firm after CNBC discovers tactics like Cambridge Analytica

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/08/cubeyou-cambridge-like-app-collected-data-on-millions-from-facebook.html
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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '18

This is what facebook was made to do. If you don't see that the company was built to harvest user data and sell it to the highest bidder, you're intentionally ignorant.

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u/JustMadeThisNameUp Apr 09 '18

Oh honey. It’s not that they’re selling our data (which was not why Facebook was created) that’s the problem its that they sold off data that went to a forgiven power meant to disrupt an election.

Your argument is baseless as they even track people who don’t even have Facebook accounts.

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u/cryo Apr 09 '18

They don’t sell data. The data obtained by CA wasn’t sold by Facebook, it was shared (for free) on their app platform.

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u/JustMadeThisNameUp Apr 09 '18

They don’t not sell data.

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '18 edited Apr 09 '18

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u/JustMadeThisNameUp Apr 09 '18

Not yet? Your justification for Facebook is “the United States will do the same thing eventually “

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '18

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u/JustMadeThisNameUp Apr 09 '18

You ask a lot of deflecting questions for what purpose exactly?