50M Facebook profiles harvested for Cambridge Analytica in major data breach
My problem with this 'outing' of CA is that Facebook explicitly commercially exists to harvest user data for Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, Fidelity etc etc so they can profile us. A million dollars is chump change in the crazy US election game. This all seems overly selective - it's ok for some people to profile but not for others. I'm not in favor of any of it to be clear but there is a definite political bias going on here.
Let's not forget FB itself has a formal political unit that exists to push propaganda in foreign elections, 'stifling opposition and stoking extremism'<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-the-facebook-team-helping-regimes-that-reach-out-and-crack-down" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-21/inside-th...</a>