(03-23-2018 04:21 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

(03-20-2018 12:24 PM)arkstfan Wrote:  Opinion piece
References tweet by Sen Klobuchar
Facebook breach: This is a major breach that must be investigated. It’s clear these platforms can’t police themselves. I've called for more transparency & accountability for online political ads. They say “trust us.” Mark Zuckerberg needs to testify before Senate Judiciary.
— Amy Klobuchar (@amyklobuchar) March 17, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plu...71224211d9

There is no fundamental difference between the Obama campaign's harvesting and scraping of Facebook data and CA's harvesting and scraping of the same types of. Except one.

I find it odd that it is such a big scandal today. (and I'm debating putting the [sarcasm on] and [/sarcasm] delimiters around the previous sentence....)

No.

Obama's campaign absolutely did collect data BUT it was when the user logged into the Obama site AND clicked an OK for sharing their OWN Facebook data.

The user if they cared, knew Obama's campaign was the one getting the data.

If you will recall. The Obama campaign and Democratic Party were at odds in 2008 and 2012 over the Obama campaign's refusal to give that data to the Party and when they finally turned over data in 2012 the party was outraged because it was heavily redacted removing much of the identifiable personal data.

Cambridge Analytica set up a Facebook personality test. It not only gathered your data as a part of the test, it used your friends list to extract information about people who did not take the personality quiz and did not consent to their data being gathered. So my dumb*** friends who take every quiz that pops up gave some data about me to Cambridge.

No one involved in taking the tests had any idea they were giving up data for political purposes, everyone who went to the Obama site, should have been aware they were doing just that when they clicked OK.

Cambridge got access to the data by claiming to be doing academic research rather than building a sophisticated commercial data set. Cambridge retained the data in violation of their research agreement.

The two are NOT the same.