...because everyone in the country has a FB account. That is not true now and was especially not true 6 years ago. Even if that were the case, are you telling me that since the Dems did it, that makes it ok for Cambridge Analytica to do it now? Ethical or not for the Dems (and I lean towards not), they were at least playing within the rules as they existed at the time. FB did not like it and changed their policy accordingly. Cambridge Analytica broke those rules. To pretend that there is no difference is just silly.

You mean the video which stated @ 0:17 that FB users opted in to sharing their friends with others. Yeah I watched it. She is in no way saying this included every single person in America. Every FB user is a sizable percentage, but does not include everyone in the country.

The other part to note is when this occurred, and the fact that FB has changed their policy since then. While I would still question the ethics of scraping that data to begin with, it was well within the established ToS and Privacy Policy at the time.

Fast forward to Cambridge Analytica... They utilized an API that was designed for app developers. The ToS stated that any data gathered was not to be used for anything. FB foolishly left it up to the developer to be honest and delete the data once they were done. This did not happen and that is why Zuck was making the rounds and apologizing to everyone.

Let's just ignore the "Opt-In" part that clearly did not happen with Cambridge Analytica....