Here's Zynga doing it in 2010 [0]. Obama campaign crawling the social graph hoovering up 10s of millions of users [1].
"We ingested the entire U.S. social graph," Carol Davidsen, director of data integration and media analytics for Obama for America, told The Washington Post this week. "We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all." [2]
"We ingested the entire U.S. social graph," Carol Davidsen, director of data integration and media analytics for Obama for America, told The Washington Post this week. "We would ask permission to basically scrape your profile, and also scrape your friends, basically anything that was available to scrape. We scraped it all." [2]
[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-zynga-sharing-priva...
[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-harnessing-facebooks-soci...
[2] https://reason.com/2018/03/23/cambridge-analytics-dust-up-re...