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		Dylan16807 on Sept 29, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta has banned the personal Facebook accounts for... > An app downloading data on behalf of the user is basically what Cambridge Analytica was doing. That's half of it. Is the app sending the data back to the app makers? If not then it's extremely different.

likpok on Sept 29, 2022 [–]

If the app is downloading the data, what’s stopping it from sending the data to the app makers?

Previously FB paid a 5 billion dollar fine because of insufficiently policing third part app developers.

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