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0 pointsskybrian8y ago0 comments

This is sort of like saying all political parties are the same. We can and should make distinctions.

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ocdtrekkie8y ago· 2 in thread

What makes Cambridge Analytica worse than Google, specifically? Is the distinction you can draw between the two objective, or subjective to your personal view (or political party)?

(From what I've found, most people upset with "all political parties are the same" are people who belong to one, and are upset that they get grouped in with people who do the exact same things they do. Not "all political parties" are the same, but the two of them I deal with as a US citizen definitely are.)

dragonwriter8y ago

> What makes Cambridge Analytica worse than Google, specifically?

The outright lying about purpose thing, by which CA’s key data was gathered, for starters.

ocdtrekkie8y ago

I would argue both Google and many other data collection based companies do this as well. Data is collected under the auspices of being able to "provide you with better services", even though the actual purpose is to target ads to you more accurately. (They may have better legal disclaimers and statements of how data will be used stuffed in their EULAs nobody reads, but I don't feel that's much less deceptive in reality.)

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