- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- selfhosted@lemmy.world
Kittygram is an Instagram frontend, like nitter and invideous.
A lot has changed since I first posted about it. Kittygram now has:
- a developer API
- atom feeds
- ratelimit tracking
- explore/popular pages
- more themes
Cambridge Analytical was less of a failure to guard the data, and more of an assistance helping the robbers load it up out the back door.
All the data gathered by Cambridge Analytica was gathered through the public API though, after users had consented to share it (by logging into a quiz app that requested the permissions). That’s why the API is very locked down now, and the approval process to get any sort of data access is very strict.
The main issue was that they gathered data from people whose profiles were set to be visible only to friends. If someone logged into the quiz and granted permissions, their friends’ data was also accessible via the API.