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by XMPPwocky 2060 days ago
> The NYU app scraping modality could easily do the same thing

So could any browser extension with the ol' "read and modify your data on \*" permission. Or any browser. Or any third-party Facebook client.

There is a difference between being technically capable of doing a thing and actually doing the thing- especially in cases where the software authors are well-known and relatively easy to hold accountable. To say otherwise is a little bit goofy!

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> especially in cases where the software authors are well-known and relatively easy to hold accountable

Like a certain lecturer and senior researcher at University of Cambridge?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Kogan