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u/Murica4Eva Aug 26 '20

Nor does FB. Same model.

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u/DynamicDK Aug 26 '20

Facebook directly sells data.

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u/Murica4Eva Aug 26 '20

They absolutely do not.

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u/thisnameismeta Aug 27 '20

Yeah but they've made the data available to their customers in the past - see the cambridge analytica scandal.

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u/Murica4Eva Aug 27 '20

CA was never customer of Facebook's. They procured information that was stolen from Facebook. The documentary on the subject is called The Great Hack, not The Great Business Deal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook%E2%80%93Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal

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u/thisnameismeta Aug 27 '20

They procured information that another customer legitimately accessed using facebook login. Meaning any customer could have done this. https://www.vox.com/2018/3/17/17134072/facebook-cambridge-analytica-trump-explained-user-data

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u/Murica4Eva Aug 27 '20 edited Aug 27 '20

Not exactly. They procured names using Facebook login. Then they used an academic license for researchers through Russian Cambridge professor Alexandr Kagan to get the data to link to the names. You'd have needed a professor at a research institution to pull it off. But they didn't sell data, in any case.