culturedgoat t1_j1dbpv2 wrote
Reply to comment by nova9001 in Meta settles Cambridge Analytica class-action lawsuit for $725 million / The company gained access to the personal information of millions of Facebook users by Sorin61
The developer platform (which is what CA used to build an app to harvest data) is open though, so you can literally verify first-hand what user data is available to third-party apps. It wouldn’t be possible now to perform data-collection on the scale that Cambridge Analytica did. You can test this directly.
SimbaOnSteroids t1_j1f3azb wrote
Just because an API isn’t publicly facing doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.
culturedgoat t1_j1f4jkg wrote
Not sure what point you’re trying to make? The Cambridge Analytica data collection was all done via public APIs.
SimbaOnSteroids t1_j1f4pjs wrote
The person you were replying to was implying the NSA (other alphabet soup agencies) have special access that’s not listed in their public facing API’s.
culturedgoat t1_j1f579z wrote
What does that have to do with Cambridge Analytica?
SimbaOnSteroids t1_j1f830t wrote
Only that they’re likely committing the same gross ethics violations, but likely on a larger scale.
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