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		powerapple on May 1, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Twitter also sold data access to Cambridge Analyti... They got their friends' public profile, which is for public access anyway.

downandout on May 1, 2018 [–]

I actually agree with you that it's not as big of a deal as the press has made it out to be...certainly not Congressional hearings big. But it was a violation of the developer policies in force at the time to use data for any purpose outside of the app.

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