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checkyoursudo on March 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ex-Facebook insider says covert data harvesting wa...

I guess then I'm confused about the narrative of the story so far.

Did Facebook have control over its (my? your?) data at Cambridge Analytica or not? I thought the extra 50 to 250 million profiles scraped were unauthorized access?

I could be entirely mistaken.

molszanski on March 23, 2018 | [–]

I had the impression that they just had 50 and they lied about "every american" on the stage. Might be very wrong though.

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