[Air-L] Help with Facebook Research

[Fred Stutzman]

Dear Cathy,

Following up on Nicole's observations, I've encountered similar policies. 
After some Facebook research was released last month FB Privacy Counsel 
Chris Kelly followed up with me and stated: "Such sharing (or the scraping 
of data by researchers) is not allowable under our current policy."  Sorry 
about this.

-Fred




On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Nicole B Ellison wrote:

> Hi Catherine,
> Before investing too much time in the technical specifics, I would suggest
> you contact Facebook and confirm they will not shut down your access once
> they identify you are crawling them. This has been an issue for my research
> team here at MSU and others I've spoken with.
>
> Nicole
>
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> Catherine Dwyer writes:
>
>> hello,
>> I am planning a survey of Facebook members at NJIT, where I am a PhD student. I would like to write a web crawl or similar program to identify through Facebook who is part of the NJIT network. I have seen other papers discuss this technique, but I need more specific details as to how to accomplish it.
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>>
>>     Cathy Dwyer, Lecturer
>>  Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems
>>   Pace University
>> http://csis.pace.edu/~dwyer
>> Office location:
>> CS/IS Faculty Offices
>> 163 Williams Street #225
>> 212-346-1728
>>
>>
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