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Cambridge Analytics is a data portability exploit. It leveraged your friend's ability to send your Facebook data to third party apps. GDPR enforces more data portability, which in some sense allows for a larger attack surface for such exploits. The article mentions one example of hackers extracting all your personal data after a takeover of your account.


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