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I thought we decided giving researchers access to social network data was a bad thing after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
by jonas21 2y ago
I thought we decided giving researchers access to social network data was a bad thing after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
- Cumpiler69 2y agoThese researchers are on the side of the government.
- personomas 2y ago[dead]
- explain 2y agoEven worse.
- croemer 2y agoThat's not at all true. This has nothing to do with the government. It's a court ruling on a law passed by parliament. In no way was the opinion/side of government at play here.
- hwillis 2y agoCambridge analytica had all data associated with real names, and it included all your likes and even some people's private messaging. Yes, anonymized research data is very different.
- Amezarak 2y agoIt is basically impossible to have anonymized social media data that cannot be deanonymized which is also useful for anything but a very narrow kind of research.
- johannes1234321 2y agoThere is always a conflict, but only with access to the data you can uncover CA-style usage of the data.
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- wkat4242 2y agoThey weren't real researchers. More like data brokers.
- PeterStuer 2y agoSo who is going to decide who is a "real" researcher?
- wkat4242 2y agoIn this case, the court.