Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t want serious research into his advertising targeting to be done.
Facebook is demanding that a New York University research project cease collecting data about its political-ad-targeting practices….
The dispute involves the NYU Ad Observatory, a project launched last month by the university’s engineering school that has recruited more than 6,500 volunteers to use a specially designed browser extension to collect data about the political ads Facebook shows them.
In particular,
Scraping tools, no matter how well-intentioned, are not a permissible means of collecting information from us….