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I'm sure it could, but of course you can always anonymise data first. In any case it seems a bit rich for facebook to restrict access due to privacy concerns, i

I'm sure it could, but of course you can always anonymise data first. In any case it seems a bit rich for facebook to restrict access due to privacy concerns, in reality the issues is likely that reason is simply that academics can't pay as well as ad agencies.

lvh 8y ago
Data anonymization is an incredibly complex problem and de-anonymization is an entire subfield. I’m by no means a Facebook apologist, but “we don’t trust our ability to deanonymize data so it would be suitable to publish” rings true.