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Kitchen-Award-3845 t1_jb3ylb8 wrote

Reply to comment by t0slink in New Bill Could Ban TikTok, Other Foreign Technology Products in US Over Data Collection Concerns by donnygel

Ah yes they don’t “sell” the data they just let the Cambridge Analytica’s of the world “collect the data “ with open API’s. I’m sure they had no idea

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t0slink t1_jb3yu9o wrote

Please do some basic research. Cambridge Analytica was effectively an exploit.

A researcher working for a Russian-sponsored thinktank found ways to extract much more data from the social graph API than Facebook ever intended for any developers to be able to retrieve.

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