Flashback: Obama Data Gathering Operation ‘Triggered Internal Safeguards’ at Facebook
In a 2013 New York Times piece about the Obama campaign’s use of Facebook, staffers on the former President’s 2012 campaign revealed that their vast data gathering operation, which trawled the Facebook feeds of supporters’ friends without their knowledge, triggered the social network’s security systems.
The New York Times piece, like much of the media coverage surrounding the Obama campaign’s use of Facebook, is nowhere near the outraged, panicked tone that characterizes reports on President Trump’s successful use of the platform. But the revelations about the extent of Obama’s digital operation reveal a campaign that may have harvested more data on American citizens than Trump’s campaign, which was operating at a time when Facebook had tightened their policies around data.
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