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1. fridaysforfuture, but everyday (paulfree14@todon.nl)'s status on Monday, 12-Nov-2018 04:05:29 EST fridaysforfuture, but everyday

   "People are still more worried that a third-party company like #CambridgeAnalytica used facebook's data instead of what they should actually be worried about: that #Facebook had that data to begin with"
   "If Cambridge Analytica can sway elections and referenda with a relatively small subset of facebook's data, imagine what facebook can and does do with the full set." - @aral
   https://www.wired.co.uk/article/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-share-price-privacy

   1. djsumdog (djsumdog@hitchhiker.social)'s status on Tuesday, 13-Nov-2018 13:23:12 EST djsumdog

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      @paulfree14 @aral Interestingly enough, their fix for the Cambridge Analytica issue broke my own scripts and restricted developers from access to their own data via the API:

      https://penguindreams.org/blog/discoverying-friend-list-changes-on-facebook-with-python/

      Furthermore, I think there was a deeper message with that entire #deletefacebook campaign, and the scary thing should be that it failed. Facebook proved to big media that no one gives a shit:

      https://fightthefuture.org/article/facebook-politics-and-orwells-24-7-hate/