Is facbook selling our data?

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Is facbook selling our data?

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https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/m ... ata-breach

Maybe they check Mormondiscussions. Watch out you.....
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um, basically everyone knows that if you are using an app/program that is not for sale then it is the user that is for sale.

This ain't groundbreaking, like commercial tv.
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"“The company has repeatedly touted its ability to influence voters through ‘psychographic’ targeting and has claimed it was the fundamental reason that Donald Trump won the 2016 election. Indeed, it may be that through Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign made use of illegitimately acquired data on millions of Americans in order to help sway the election.”
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aussieguy55 wrote:"“The company has repeatedly touted its ability to influence voters through ‘psychographic’ targeting and has claimed it was the fundamental reason that Donald Trump won the 2016 election. Indeed, it may be that through Cambridge Analytica, the Trump campaign made use of illegitimately acquired data on millions of Americans in order to help sway the election.”

sounds like a sales pitch
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I dunno about selling our data, but with all the posts about facbook and the homless, somebody seems to be stealing the letter 'e'.
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The part about the company's history with Steve Bannon and how you had to destroy a society to rebuild it was fascinating. Sounds like Cambridge Analytica adapted this Bannon philosophy in creating a terrible misuse of personal data.

It makes me wonder whether the World of Tanks Facebook friends of LDSfaqs have been inundated with unusual Youtube feeds.
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MeDotOrg wrote:I dunno about selling our data, but with all the posts about facbook and the homless, somebody seems to be stealing the letter 'e'.

Nothing to see here; goyourway...

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