I have no idea if any of this is illegal. I doubt it is illegal.
http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/03/facebook-is-in-serious-trouble.htmlMONDAY, MARCH 19, 2018
Facebook is in SERIOUS trouble
It turns out that the Obama campaign did the same thing that Cambridge Analytica did... only with Facebook's full knowledge and approval:
https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077083-ex-obama-campaign-director-fb/Ex-Obama Campaign Director Drops Bombshell Claim on Facebook: 'They Were on Our Side'
JASON HOWERTON | MAR 19, 2018 | 11:00 AM
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https://ijr.com/2018/03/1077208-former-obama-campaign-facebook-data/Ex-Obama Campaign Director: It's 'Unfair' Facebook Let Us 'Ingest Entire Social Network of US'
JASON HOWERTON | MAR 19, 2018 | 2:55 PM
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A former Obama campaign official lit up the internet on Monday after claiming that Facebook allowed them to mine massive amounts of Facebook data because “they were on our side.”
Now, comments she made in 2015 are shining even more light on exactly how extensive the data mining effort was — and how it may have given Democrats an “unfair” data advantage going forward.
Carol Davidsen, former director of integration and media analytics for Obama for America, said the Obama campaign was able to “ingest the entire social network” in the United States.
“Where this gets complicated is, that freaked Facebook out, right? So they shut off the feature,” she added. “Well, the Republicans never built an app to do that. So the data is out there, you can’t take it back, right? So Democrats have this information.”
But Republicans do not have that information and they will not be able to gain access to it, she said.
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