Yeah, that's falling directly into Facebook's talking points. It's a web extension, anybody can inspect the source. It doesn't do what Facebook is claiming. The NYU team bends over backwards to ensure that no personally identifying information about other users gets captured.
The privacy leak that Facebook is so concerned about is actually the identity of advertisers on their platform.
So Facebook, who just paid a 5 billion dollar fine to the FTC for allowing exactly what these researchers are doing, should adopt a policy of examining the source code of every update to any extension used for scraping data to determine whether it's allowed or not? Is that the other option?
knowtheory|4 years ago
The privacy leak that Facebook is so concerned about is actually the identity of advertisers on their platform.
https://twitter.com/issielapowsky/status/1422879438765797380
jensensbutton|4 years ago
amadeuspagel|4 years ago
Yeah? That also seems like a completely legitimate concern.
secondcoming|4 years ago