When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users In 2012, Everyone Cheered!!

[Text Drivers are Killers]

More hypocrisy from the american press. They will do anything to hurt trump because he is white and all liberals are white-hating racists.

https://www.investors.com/politics/e...on-obama-2012/

march 19 2018 Funny, When Obama Harvested Facebook Data On Millions Of Users To Win In 2012, Everyone Cheered

In 2012, the Obama campaign encouraged supporters to download an Obama 2012 Facebook app that, when activated, let the campaign collect Facebook data both on users and their friends.

According to a July 2012 MIT Technology Review article, when you installed the app, "it said it would grab information about my friends: their birth dates, locations, and 'likes.' "

The campaign boasted that more than a million people downloaded the app, which, given an average friend-list size of 190, means that as many as 190 million had at least some of their Facebook data vacuumed up by the Obama campaign — without their knowledge or consent.

If anything, Facebook made it easy for Obama to do so. A former campaign director, Carol Davidsen, tweeted that "Facebook was surprised we were able to suck out the whole social graph, but they didn't stop us once they realized that was what we were doing."


The effort was called a "game-changer" in the 2012 election, and the Obama campaign boasted that it was "the most groundbreaking piece of technology developed for the campaign."

The only difference, as far as we can discern, between the two campaigns' use of Facebook, is that in the case of Obama the users themselves agreed to share their data with the Obama campaign, as well as that of their friends.

The users that downloaded the Cambridge app, meanwhile, were only told that the information would be used for academic purposes. Nor was the data to be used for anything other than academic purposes.

It's an important distinction, to be sure, and Facebook is right to be attacked for its inability to control how its user data were being gathered and shopped around. (Facebook tightened its privacy rules on data sharing apps in 2015.)

[Mr.Badguy]

The only difference, as far as we can discern, between the two campaigns' use of Facebook, is that in the case of Obama the users themselves agreed to share their data with the Obama campaign, as well as that of their friends.

That makes all the difference in the world, but nice try.

[Evmetro]

More hypocrisy from the american press. They will do anything to hurt trump because he is white and all liberals are white-hating racists.

Hypocrisy is a big part of politics. Politics is an ugly game that can lead to blood bath wars, so hypocrisy and corruption are just par for the course. The Cambridge thing sounds like what any candidate these days should bring to the fight. Never bring a knife to a gun fight.

Cambridge will probably not be up to the task in 2020, I suspect that candidates will need bigger guns for the next election.

[Bourbon]

Don't forget the Prostitutes Obama offered ... while your Shoveling Bull Shit

[Evmetro]

... as well as that of their friends.
.

Not really much difference. The average friend list is 190, so 189 out of 190 did not agree.

[evince]

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[evince]

that site is right wing trash

they repeat the Russian lies

[katzgar]

Not really much difference. The average friend list is 190, so 189 out of 190 did not agree.

giving permission is very different from not giving permission. you are a graduate of moron 101

[Evmetro]

giving permission is very different from not giving permission. you are a graduate of moron 101

189 out of 190 did NOT give Obama permission. See post 2, then post 5.

[evince]

The only difference, as far as we can discern, between the two campaigns' use of Facebook, is that in the case of Obama the users themselves agreed to share their data with the Obama campaign, as well as that of their friends.

That makes all the difference in the world, but nice try.

laws and rights mean nothing to Russian bots

[evince]

who wrote that OP article from that trash right wing site ?

the asshole wont even put their name on it

[Superfreak]

The only difference, as far as we can discern, between the two campaigns' use of Facebook, is that in the case of Obama the users themselves agreed to share their data with the Obama campaign, as well as that of their friends.

That makes all the difference in the world, but nice try.

No, the users of the APP (about 1 million) agreed to share their data. The roughly 179 million other people DID NOT.

[katzgar]

189 out of 190 did NOT give Obama permission. See post 2, then post 5.

you are incorrect as usual... http://swampland.time.com/2012/11/20...-young-voters/

[Superfreak]

that site is right wing trash

they repeat the Russian lies

You are a Russian spy

[canceled.2021.1]

The only difference, as far as we can discern, between the two campaigns' use of Facebook, is that in the case of Obama the users themselves agreed to share their data with the Obama campaign, as well as that of their friends.

That makes all the difference in the world, but nice try.

Did their friends agree to have their data shared?

This is all much ado about nothing

We get it with you liberals

Obama = good
Trump = bad

Personally, I don't use Facebook but if you nimrods think that Zuckerberg is going to give you something for FREE then you are deluding yourselves. How do you think he became worth billions?

I think he knows the jig is up. He is cashing out stock like crazy