Cambridge Analytica harvested data from millions of unsuspecting Facebook users

[BigBearJohn]

Cambridge Analytica, a company that profiled voters for Donald Trump’s campaign, allegedly harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook profiles, which they used to influence and wage a “culture war” during the 2016 election.

Whistleblower Christopher Wylie, who helped found Cambridge Analytica and served as their director of research until 2014, told NBC News' U.K. partner ITN Channel 4 News that the company helped develop an application on Facebook that paid individuals to take a survey. If users had not adjusted their privacy settings on the social media outlet, however, the app didn’t just capture the survey responses — it also gathered as much data from each account as possible.

That data included information from Facebook users’ friends and contacts, as well.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cambridge-analytica-harvested-data-millions-unsuspecting-facebook-users-n857591?cid=eml_nbn_20180317

[Squinch]

1. And Facebook let them, and had employees with offices in the Trump campaign, and STILL

no one is boycotting them.

Are photos of high school friends' restaurant meals really worth the loss of every iota of one's privacy, not to mention our Democracy?

[JDC]

2. Never had an account and never will.

I used to not have one just to be a "rebel." Then I stayed away because they run their tentacles through every bit of your computer and embed themselves with their "like" BS, making themselves impossible to remove from a machine. F FB.

[Mosby]

3. they lied to FB, which is why they closed the account.