Facebook - What an amazing data dredger !!

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Originally Posted by cripesamighty

" I wonder if they have reached the stage yet of predicting which way you will vote based on your browsing history and pushing targeted political material to you. "

That has already been done, for both Obama as well as Trump. The company involved in both campaigns, Cambridge Analytica, received data on 87 million Facebook users illegally, and is in court as we speak, alongside Facebook. Oops....

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And interestingly Facebook have not changed their practices one iota...

From memory they gave the data to a university academic who onsold it - is that right?

adding fake data makes real data worthless

Facebook's privacy meltdown after Cambridge Analytica is far from over

Facebook's privacy meltdown after Cambridge Analytica is far from over | Siva Vaidhyanathan | UK news | The Guardian