Facebook gave Obama’s election headquarters access to user data

Former media director of the presidential campaign of Barack Obama, Carol Davidsen, said that in 2011, the Facebook social network gave them access to personal user data because the corporation was “on the side of the Obama candidate,” writes The New York Post.

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“They came to our office after the election and frankly stated that they allowed us to do things on social media that they would not allow anyone else to do because they were on our side,” Carol Davidsen wrote on her microblog. Twitter.

According to the woman, she and her team were able to gather a huge amount of personal information from users. Facebook and their friends.

«Facebook was surprised that we were able to obtain such a huge amount of sociological information, but they did not stop us when they realized what exactly we were doing,” Davidsen added in Twitter.

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Davidsen said she created a database of American voters using the same tool. Facebook, what and Cambridge Analyticathat received information about 50 by millions of users.

She clarified that for this simply asked users Facebook giving her team access to their page and friends list was enough to create a database.

She also published an example of how the Obama campaign used Facebook during the election.

Photo: Twitter / @ cld276

But Facebook and its users deliberately gave permission for the Obama campaign to collect personal data, while data for Cambridge Analytica were fraudulently collected because people thought their data was being collected for academic purposes.

Recall Facebook blocked the company Cambridge Analytica because she collected user data in violation of social network rules.

Cambridge Analytica analyzes data in social networks to develop strategic communications during election campaigns, including, possibly, for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.

According to the Facebook, in 2015, the Russian-speaking psychology professor at the University of Cambridge, Alexander Kogan, through the application he created,This is your digital life"On the social network platform, which was supposed to be a psychological portrait of the user, transferred data on 270 to thousands of users Facebook third parties, among which was Cambridge Analytica.

Read more about this scam in our material.As a scientist from Russia, stole and sold the data of millions of Facebook users".

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