The blame that both groups were able to collect more info via the social graph (from users who did not explicitly consent) rests principally with FB's failure to respect users' stated privacy settings.
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Afaik Facebook and CA claim that the scraping was legal, and in conformance to Facebooks inscrutable and unmanageable privacy settings.
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One difference is that Facebook's rules changed between the two administrations (and under Trump they violated those rules, and also federated significantly more information). Still, in the grand scheme of things, it all all really sucks.
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And CA are in the UK so their alleged use of data would be illegal.
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Seems wrong to suggest a moral equivalence between the two, especially when the last paragraph you quoted suggests Obama for America asked users' permission to consent to profile scraping. CA explicitly did not do same.
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Yeah but the Obama campaign gave us Obama not Trump. Obama seemd like an above average politician at the time, convincing people of hin isnt that far of a reach. Trump is an incompetent train wreck, convincing people of Trump is scary.
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Exactly that is the hypocrisy, I think. We cannot condemn the behavior of the other camp as immoral but condone the same behavior in ours. That discussion has nothing to do with our preference of Obama over Trump.
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Except the Obama campaign had their own app that was clearly labeled as such and not a "personality quiz" :/ And also there is the issue of illegal campaign finances, using foreign campaign workers, etc. Not similar to the Obama campaign at all at this level.
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