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How social platforms allow your data to be weaponised – The Australian Financial Review
While a CEO or politician might feel like they are simply giving their followers an appealing dash of personal charm with a social media post, they are helping operatives pull together data points and map their contacts in alarming detail.
For those in positions of influence and authority, it is also a reminder they must closely police how they are being represented on different platforms, lest they find themselves being used to promote causes they don’t agree with.
But what of the tech platforms themselves? Scraping data from big platforms such as Facebook is against the terms of service, and Facebook has sought to take action against some companies, such as Australian social media marketing platform Stackla, when it believes it…
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