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		loeg on May 22, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meta fined $1.3B over data transfers to U.S. Your guess is wildly mistaken. They did not intend to sell data to CA; and the CA events happened in 2014-2015 and the program CA abused was subsequently shut down.

ndsipa_pomu on May 22, 2023 [–]

To my mind that could be explained as CA exploiting Facebook users' data and Facebook shut down that program so that it could instead explicitly sell similar datasets.

loeg on May 22, 2023 | [–]

Well, you're wildly mistaken again. The dataset is the golden goose -- they have no interest or incentive to sell it.

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