EST. MMXXVI · A PUBLIC RECORD
2 CONFESSIONS · 42 CASESConfess
CR-01903.07.MMXXVI

My personality quiz didn't just take your answers. The permission screen I designed took your friends list too — data on tens of millions of people who never touched the app, later used to target their politics. I made the grant feel routine. That was the craft, and that was the crime.

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Drawn from the public record, written in the ledger's voice. No individual confessed this entry. The mechanism is documented; the taxonomy is the point.

Source US FTC — In the Matter of Cambridge Analytica, LLC, administrative complaint, Docket No. 9383 (2019)

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Data harvestingPrivacy violationConsent manufacture

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