[weare138]

Funny that Facebook had no issue with Cambridge Analytica until Cambridge Analytica became an issue. Let's also ignore the fact that Cambridge Analytica was a private foreign company illicitly compiling data to influence US elections. But yes by all means, it's no different than a research group and volunteers studying an algorithm. You definitely nailed it.

[ergocoder]

They learned from the mistake and now doesn't want to make the same mistake. Sounds fair though.

How do you guarantee it is just a research group?

Didn't Cambridge analytics look innocent as well in the beginning?

[shapefrog]

> Cambridge Analytica

Looks a bit like they selected a name hinting to a connection with a world class university.

[jimsimmons]

FB’s response to imagine the worst and outright ban is awfully convenient. Do you really think FB is so on top of their user’s privacy otherwise?

[pptr]

Security and privacy are all about imagining the worst. Anything that can be exploited will be exploited eventually.

[ergocoder]

No, but that doesn't mean they have to allow random research group to crawl their data.

Again a mistake happened in the past. FB learns to not trust random research group upfront.