Friday, March 23, 2018

The Cambridge Analytica Mess Is a Good Reminder to Check Which Sketchy Apps You’ve Allowed to Access Your Facebook Profile - Slate


In 2013, an app called Lulu briefly became the object of the internet's fascination and scorn. The app's purpose was to allow women to rate men, Yelp-style, and I had mostly forgotten all about it, writing it off as just another problematic app in a world full of them. My memory was jogged, however, by the news that the political-data firm Cambridge Analytica may have harvested as many as 50 million user profiles ....
https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/the-cambridge-analytica-mess-is-a-reminder-to-check-which-sketchy-apps-youve-allowed-to-access-your-facebook-profile.html

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