How Cambridge Analytica Exploited the Facebook Data of Millions | NYT

Tens of millions of American Facebook users had their data harvested by Cambridge Analytica and a British-based researcher. Here’s how it happened.

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[DeniseF]

People should also avoid those "what will I look like in 50 years" quizzes. All those pages want access to your info too and i see everyone taking and sharing all these quizzes. It's obvious what all these quizzes are for on Facebook. Stop doing them.

[AAron-grjk]

so if an individual 'misuses' acess to computer systems, you go to jail. But a researcher, that then sells to a commercial entity that exploits it. That's just a breach of trust...

[Andrewg]

Zuckerberg: thank you cambridge analytica, you make me more popular now

[evilwatermelon]

A guy(CA) want to know what his crush(us) likes and dislikes.
Then he asked her bestfriend(Facebook) to gather info. Something like that?

[va]

I don't understand how they are able to target the specific profile eith their ads as it is not possible on facebook?

[yousircantknow]

So everyone just NOW realizes Facebook is a third party ad platform completely dependent on user generated content? Really? Shame on all of you.

[yashsalve]

New york times has the best graphical representation

[Milo]

so why are they grilling mark zuckerberg instead of the guy who did the research

[harunsuaidi]

I personally think this is kind of amazing.

[lindascoon]

So is it really possible to make people vote for someone if you know who their Facebook friends are? I wish we had the statistics of the number of people who were convinced to make their voting decisions by this.

[jostoyte]

Does Facebook charge money for institutions to access user data for academic research?

[troybird]

Sensors use ultra sound, bluetooth, gps and pre-installed applications to gather information on users.
Think about what is happening or what pings occur when you are close to wifi or other smart devices connected to cloud servers or other American affiliated servers.

[Jchasser]

How is any different than targeting ads

[atomicfart]

Off gosh the echie pictures that I like!

[codewalters]

What happened to Alexander Nix in the end ?

[XJLCA]

Never "like" something on the internet and don't use Facebook login.

[sevenhenson]

Well nowadays nobody reveals their true views online. So what's the issue. No matter how accurate the models maybe, the resulting profiles may not be correct.

[eliasp]

is Michael Fassbender doing the voice over?

[marving.]

should this be CA's fault all the way? they used facebook's API which is really publica and any can use it, however when they created their survey's people are asked, it was this dumb people who allows their profiles their profiles to be exploited.... first off if I have stumbled question like this on the interent and I don't know them and asked for my email address I just close it right away...

[froilananthony]

Cambridge Analytica should be investigated not facebook
Users share there data with there friends but the man behind who sells it to Cambridge should be responsible