Facebook has suspended the account of the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower
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Thousands of other people could do the exact same thing. Unless I misunderstand, there are zero technical obstacles preventing this kind of data-harvesting. Maybe it now (as of 2016) violates the letter of Facebook's API ToS, but that's just a pinky-swear that developers click through without reading.
> Cause a tonne of negative PR for [COMPANY] > Expect not to lose access to [COMPANY] services
There's a logical error here.