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by Nextgrid 1448 days ago
I wish the Cambridge Analytica FUD would stop. CA's "attack" was to setup a malicious website that convinced idiots to give it access to their Facebook account using the standard oAuth2 flow.

Did they misuse the collected data? Sure. But people granted access to that data knowingly. This wasn't really an attack in my view.

Facebook wasn’t really complicit and definitely didn’t sell/give away any data.