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Re:Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm by ergocoder on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:18AM (#28178221)
They learned from the mistake and now doesn't want to make the same mistake. Sounds fair though.

How do you guarantee it is just a research group?

Didn't Cambridge analytics look innocent as well in the beginning?

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Re:Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm by shapefrog on Saturday August 14, 2021 @03:24AM (#28178766)
> Cambridge Analytica

Looks a bit like they selected a name hinting to a connection with a world class university.

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Re:Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm by jimsimmons on Saturday August 14, 2021 @03:01AM (#28178679)
FB’s response to imagine the worst and outright ban is awfully convenient. Do you really think FB is so on top of their user’s privacy otherwise?
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Re:Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm by pptr on Saturday August 14, 2021 @05:03AM (#28179220)
Security and privacy are all about imagining the worst. Anything that can be exploited will be exploited eventually.
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Re:Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm by ergocoder on Saturday August 14, 2021 @01:35PM (#28182463)
No, but that doesn't mean they have to allow random research group to crawl their data.

Again a mistake happened in the past. FB learns to not trust random research group upfront.

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