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It's a real shame damage to privacy isn't acknowledged as self-evident.

Of the 87 million or so individuals who were impacted[1], only 270,000 gave their consent[2]:

The first step for those filling out the questionnaire was to grant access to their Facebook profiles. Once they did, an app then harvested their data and that of their friends."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/04/us/politics/cambridge-ana...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/17/us/politics/cambridge-ana...



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