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There's nothing illegal about any of it. At least not what's been uncovered to date. That Obama's campaign was using analytics was known during those campaigns.
The only thing I can see that could possibly be different here, is 1) if an adversarial foreign power was involved, and 2) if FB allowed the data miners to leapfrog from one user to others outside of the bounds of the agreements users sign.
Note that I quit FB after 2 weeks. When GWB was president. It was obvious they were harvesting personal info for profit, and it was a stupid time-suck anyway. Made sure FB didn't have a working phone, email or physical address for me. I can't get my wife of it, however, although I did get her to cull most of her connections.
Does "farmville" still exist? What a waste...
I haven't seen anything that is illegal either. I have a facebook account but rarely go on it. I just use it to keep track of old colleagues and friends. I have had friends that post pictures all of their expensive toys on facebook and then post when they are going out of town. I could never figure that one out.