https://www.linkedin.com/posts/farzaneh-badiei-phd-768224b5_a-new-developmen... Farzaneh Badiei writes: I am deeply concerned about the behavioral research fever that is going on
in the social media field. Be it teens mental health or how to make dating apps mental free or coming up with the most amazing trust and safety governance, researchers keep asking for more and more data. I think here we are dealing with surveillance scientificism. Researchers access of whatever kind if not careful can turn into surveillance and the news is: "Meta is opening a small pilot program that would allow a handful of them (researchers) to access Instagram data for up to about six months in order to study the app’s effect on the well-being of teens and young adults" [ link <https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/07/instagram-teen-well-being-studies/679048/>] I think it is also a direct result of researchers constantly asking for data access without considering what sorts of effect they might have on the Internet, privacy, encryption and global interoperability.
I have cc'd Farzaneh above, in case any researchers here might want to respond to her concerns. Joly -- -------------------------------------- Joly MacFie +12185659365 -------------------------------------- -