Comments on: A File With 100 million Facebook Users’ Data https://www.bitsbook.com/2010/07/a-file-with-100-million-facebook-users-data/ Your Life, Liberty and Happiness After the Digital Explosion Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.13 By: PS https://www.bitsbook.com/2010/07/a-file-with-100-million-facebook-users-data/comment-page-1/#comment-9711 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:30:35 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=712#comment-9711 From a technical and legal standpoint, he did nothing wrong, he simply make already public information available from another channel. Nor did Facebook do anything wrong, they allowed him to crawl their public data like they allow anyone to crawl (be it a regular user, a data-mining researcher, or an evil person).

There can be several possible consequences as a result of such incidents:

– If incidents such as this end up raising public awareness about the risks of over-sharing on social networks, then thats great.

– If as a result of the media bashing, Facebook decides to change its defaults to be more private, then thats even greater.

– But if as a result of all this, Facebook legal team gets together and makes crawling of their data illegal, and they add strict rate-limits to their servers, then that would be very sad, it would be a big disservice to the research community.

I hope (as a researcher) that the first two consequences happen, and not the third.

]]> By: Maredith https://www.bitsbook.com/2010/07/a-file-with-100-million-facebook-users-data/comment-page-1/#comment-9689 Thu, 29 Jul 2010 03:08:32 +0000 http://www.bitsbook.com/?p=712#comment-9689 LOL2….very interesting…hehe

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