Google Chrome store distributes a sketchy extension that operates over the top of your browser and any privacy controls that websites can implement, so let's write the headline about Facebook and lead with a picture of Zuck. :/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/11/facebook-private-groups-breast-cancer-privacy-loophole.html …
oh, wait. is the article about two completely separate things? a data-scraping Chrome extension and changes in Facebook access controls?
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was the scraping extension for grabbing the member list of a group that you're already a member of or a group that you're not a member of?
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According to the article it was for any group, regardless of membership. It seems that Facebook recently changed this, but at the time of the report group membership was public.
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Yes. The Chrome extension does scrape the data, but based on the reporting in the article the data was already publicly available to all Facebook users. So, the extension was just one of many ways to collect it.
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