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[jack]

They're clearly horrible but can someone give the cliff notes version of which things Cambridge Analytica actually did?

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[hilarita]

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.

[seekingferret]

Thanks for the clarifications.