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>> In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.

So basically FB's problem is that Kogan passed the data to third parties, without FB's knowledge and -I guess- without FB being in on the deal. Because FB's whole business model is to hoover up its user's data and sell it to "third parties".

Third parties who may then do with it whatever they like, without users having any control over it. You know- like Kogan just did.

FB is trying to pretend they're the responsible party in this - "Protecting peoples' information" is what they do, they say. Well, no it isn't. Trading peoples' information is at the heart of everything they do. And this is just one more example of why it is so harmful.




Someone please correct me - but I don't think that FB sells data. They use it for their own uses, and customers of their advertising platform can use that data to target groups, but I don't think they sell their data to 3rd parties. Am I wrong ?



My understanding is that Facebook act as the 'ad broker' themselves, as opposed to selling the data on to third-party ad brokers.


Nobody outside of Facebook has any way of knowing. That’s the problem.


Uh, anyone that bought data from Facebook would know. And people they spoke to about selling data.

FB monetizes data by letting people use it for ad targeting, not by selling it.




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