I don’t think so it was not really a leak through an exploit. Data was collected by one party through Facebook was bought by CA and then used mainly for targeted political advertisement.
It wasn’t an exploit, but it was data scraping via the API. That’s why the API is so locked down now - for example, you can’t create a third-party FB app any more.
How do you think they monetize your data in the first place?
It’s all ads. No data is sold. It’s not the data that’s monetized; it’s your attention.
I don’t think so it was not really a leak through an exploit. Data was collected by one party through Facebook was bought by CA and then used mainly for targeted political advertisement.
Yeah, so an exploit
How do you think they monetize your data in the first place?
Advertising. Did you not read my comment? Have you never looked at their earnings?
I don’t think so it was not really a leak through an exploit. Data was collected by one party through Facebook was bought by CA and then used mainly for targeted political advertisement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook–Cambridge_Analytica_data_scandal
Like hell they don’t. How do you think they monetize your data in the first place?
It wasn’t an exploit, but it was data scraping via the API. That’s why the API is so locked down now - for example, you can’t create a third-party FB app any more.
It’s all ads. No data is sold. It’s not the data that’s monetized; it’s your attention.
Yeah maybe.
Yeah, so an exploit
Advertising. Did you not read my comment? Have you never looked at their earnings?