Cambridge Analytica created a Facebook App which if people signed up, administered some cutesey memey personality quiz. When people signed up, they also gave the app permission to access their profile and I guess the profiles of their friends (or maybe just whatever profile information their friends had granted them?) Cambridge Analytica gathered this data and used it to target ads, including political ads. This may or may not have violated the Facebook TOS, and may or may not have violated various jurisdictions' rules about data privacy, which may or may not have the force of law, and which Facebook may or may not accept as binding on them. In any case, some users feel that regardless of whether what Cambridge Analytica did was legal, they should have been informed about how their personal data was being used with more clarity than it was. And since Cambridge Analytica worked for the Trump campaign, all of this is somehow connected to the investigation into ethical and criminal violations that occurred during that campaign.
Cambridge Analytica did not create the app. A researcher created an app which sucked up a shitton of data, because of dubious FB privacy settings. This researcher then shared the data with Cambridge Analytica (possibly he sold them the data). The researcher was breaking FB TOS when he did so; FB later asked CA to delete the data they had obtained. Any UK data that was transferred was not lawfully acquired by CA, as while the initial capture of FB data was in compliance with FB's TOS, that data could not lawfully be sold on to a 3rd party under Data Protection law.
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Date: 2018-03-21 04:24 pm (UTC)Cambridge Analytica created a Facebook App which if people signed up, administered some cutesey memey personality quiz. When people signed up, they also gave the app permission to access their profile and I guess the profiles of their friends (or maybe just whatever profile information their friends had granted them?) Cambridge Analytica gathered this data and used it to target ads, including political ads. This may or may not have violated the Facebook TOS, and may or may not have violated various jurisdictions' rules about data privacy, which may or may not have the force of law, and which Facebook may or may not accept as binding on them. In any case, some users feel that regardless of whether what Cambridge Analytica did was legal, they should have been informed about how their personal data was being used with more clarity than it was. And since Cambridge Analytica worked for the Trump campaign, all of this is somehow connected to the investigation into ethical and criminal violations that occurred during that campaign.
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Date: 2018-03-21 06:01 pm (UTC)no subject
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