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by eterm 2996 days ago
It's all part of the CA story:

"Aleksandr Kogan, a Moldovan-born researcher from Cambridge University, admits harvesting the personal details of 30 million Facebook users via a personality app he developed.

He then passed the data to Cambridge Analytica who assured him this was legal, he said. "

From https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/21/facebook-row...