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I would argue the difference there was that was an explicitly political app where from what I understand the app that leaked this data wasn't political in any way.

Either way it's great to see some light shined on FB, this is exactly the reason I don't use their services.

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Facebook sure was political, though. From Davidsen:

> They came to office in the days following election recruiting & were very candid that they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side.

That the app's purpose was disguised is definitely true. I would suggest that there a large number of applications that use Facebook logins are primarily designed to monetize the information gathered from the access that provides. I would also suggest that the users of the Obama campaign application were not aware that the purpose was to gather information on from their friend lists in order to support targeting advertisements at people they couldn't get phone numbers for.

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