*As one who's being muscled by NYU for urging thorough study of certain * *scientific **findings, **I find this news a tad ironic.*
*MCM * Facebook wants the NYU Ad Observer to quit collecting data about its ad targeting *The social media giant said it may change its code to thwart the data scraping* https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/10/23/21531232/facebook-nyu-ads-politics-data-election Facebook wants a New York University research project to stop collecting data about the social platform’s political ad-targeting, *The Wall Street Journal* reported <https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-seeks-shutdown-of-nyu-research-project-into-political-ad-targeting-11603488533?mod=hp_lista_pos1> . [image: image.gif] The Ad Observatory <https://adobservatory.org/>, a project of NYU’s engineering school with more than 6,000 volunteers, uses its AdObserver browser extension to scrape data from political ads shown on Facebook. But Facebook says the program violates its terms of service, which bar scraping. A Facebook official sent a letter to the Ad Observatory researchers October 16th, saying that “scraping tools, no matter how well-intentioned, are not a permissible means of collecting information from us.” The letter also threatened further enforcement action if the project did not shut down and delete the data it has collected, according to the *WSJ*. The company could change its own code to block the NYU team from collecting further data, a Facebook spokesperson told the *WSJ*. *Click on the link for the rest* --- Support News from Underground: https://bit.ly/NFUSupport Visit News from Underground: https://markcrispinmiller.com You received this email because you are subscribed to News from Underground. To unsubscribe from this email list, please go to: http://www.simplelists.com/confirm.php?u=pIdjNUgiG2h8yxbhC54SSy4SEskAoEMs For archives, please go to: https://archives.simplelists.com/nfu
