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Facebook confirms Cambridge Analytica harvested profile data

ravenviz Silver badge

Re: Fake News!!

One would assume that a Facebook user would need formally to Friend any such found contacts, and for that Friend to accept for those data to be be retained by Facebook.

However one does also wonder how the ‘People you may know’ function works as some offerings do seem to be uncanny and unconnected to any direct links on Facebook itself. But then they do have clever algorithms that maybe can use allowed data creatively.

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