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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?

> Cambridge Analytica

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

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?

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

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.