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For months, we’ve attempted to work with New York University to provide three of their researchers the precise access they’ve asked for in a privacy protected way. Today, we disabled the accounts, apps, Pages and platform access associated with NYU’s Ad Observatory Project and its operators after our repeated attempts to bring their research into compliance with our Terms. NYU’s Ad Observatory project studied political ads using unauthorized means to access and collect data from Facebook, in violation of our Terms of Service. We took these actions to stop unauthorized scraping and protect people’s privacy in line with our privacy program under the FTC Order.
The researchers gathered data by creating a browser extension that was programmed to evade our detection systems and scrape data such as usernames, ads, links to user profiles and “Why am I seeing this ad?” information, some of which is not publicly-viewable on Facebook. The extension also collected data about Facebook users who did not install it or consent to the collection. The researchers had previously archived this information in a now offline, publicly-available database.
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We told the researchers a year ago, in summer of 2020, that their Ad Observatory extension would violate our Terms even before they launched the tool. In October, we sent them a formal letter notifying them of the violation of our Terms of Service and granted them 45 days to comply with our request to stop scraping data from our website. The deadline ended on November 30, long after Election Day. We continued to engage with the researchers on addressing our privacy concerns and offered them ways to obtain data that did not violate our Terms.
The extension will then begin to scan your facebook feed and youtube pages for ads, sponsored posts, and other targeted content and send that data in an anonymised manner to our servers for analysis.
You may not access or collect data from our Products using automated means (without our prior permission)
arne_v (3) skrev:#0
Hvordan kan nogen tro at de har en ret til at gøre som det passer dem og ignorere FB' ToS.
Det er helt klart at den funktionalitet overtræder FB's ToS og FB har fortalt dem det.
Og de er bare ligeglade.
Det er jo grotesk.
Det er "jeg er god så reglerne gælder ikke for mig" mentaliteten når den e værst.
Og hvis det jeg har fremhævet med fedt kan bevises, så bør EU og Californien sagsøge universitetet for 20% af deres omsætning for privalivskrænkelse.
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