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		iwintermute on Dec 12, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: If Logged into Facebook, Oculus VR Data Will Now B... You might want to look up what was up with Cambridge Analytica - Michael Lewis has one of episodes in Against the Rules (podcast) - it's a good place to start. There was nothing at all. No predictive power. Total waste of money and it's funny this example keeps coming up

thdrdt on Dec 12, 2019 [–]

That it didn't help CA doesn't matter.

What matters is that you can target specific people when you have a lot of money because Facebook gathers/gathered that data.

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