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		daodedickinson on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Sou... Whenever I would talk about stuff like CA a few years back to my friend who works at Facebook, he would just say Palantir is even worse. Palantir has everything that can possibly be scraped from Facebook, and everything else they can get. It's not far off from that show Christopher Nolan's brother made... Person of Interest?

username223 on March 21, 2018 | [–]

I'd be curious to read more about what your friend saw. There are ways to make that happen, e.g.

https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/index.ht...

dexterdog on March 20, 2018 | [–]

I would assume Facebook has more than Panatir can scrape. They are the real problem.

daodedickinson on March 27, 2018 | [–]

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/27/palantir-worked-with-cambrid...

Looks like CA is just one means Palantir has used to get Facebook data.

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