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Wait, didn’t the CA folks manage to get info on friends of people who “opted in” as well? Even if they didn’t?


Yes. A few hundred thousand people took the quiz and Facebook's platform allowed them to therefore gather information on tens of millions of people. Facebook had a policy at the time that the extraneous data could only be used to improve user experience, not third-party data harvesting, but reportedly it was weakly enforced.




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