Not exact matches
It most likely wasn't hard: Stillwell had accidentally stumbled across a treasure trove of Facebook users who seemed willing, by the millions, to give up their
data to his third - party app,
along with all the
data of people in their Facebook
friend networks.
You'll find similar responses over at City -
Data Forum,
along with, «My spouse is more like a room - mate (
friend, maybe, I'm not sure) than a lover these days.
That app, which was developed by a University of Cambridge professor, collected
data about the 270,000 people who installed it,
along with data about their Facebook
friends, totaling 50 million people in all.
If one of your Facebook
friends had happened to download the app made on behalf of Cambridge Analytica in 2014 and decided to take the personality quiz, that person's profile
data,
along with the profile
data of his
friends, including yours, was likely in a cache owned by a company whose job was to install a conservative in the White House.
The company said the
data collection accessed information of the 270,000 people who had downloaded the app,
along with «more limited information» about their
friends.
It provided fun but at the same time, gathered personal
data of users
along with their
friends and family.