How 50 million shared their facebook data

Do you really want 'friends'?
It only takes 1 person to 'sign up' and all of their 'friends' data is shared.

270,000 people sign up and => 50 million peoples data is shared.

"Once on line always on line"

"We exploited Facebook to harvest millions of people's profiles. And built models to exploit what we knew about them and target their inner demons. That was the basis the entire company was built on,"

"People knowingly provided their information, no systems were infiltrated, and no passwords or sensitive pieces of information were stolen or hacked,"

Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app.

"In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it,"

http://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/facebook-rejects-data-breach-claims-after-suspending-scl-accounts-118031800224_1.html

and many others now reporting this