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This probably belongs in the politics thread, but apropos of the above and as interesting information on what requesters may be doing with our data, especially when our work interfaces with Facebook, I'm leaving this for your consideration. No idea of how trustworthy this may or may not be.From the HIT page instructions:
We are conducting an academic survey about social networks and personality. We have developed a software system that measures personality based on your facebook pages, and so to participate in this study you must click on the link at the end of the survey and allow access to your facebook page. No personally identifying information is collected.
sure....
https://scout.ai/story/the-rise-of-the-weaponized-ai-propaganda-machine
From the above article.
"As a part of their relationship, Kogan paid Amazon Mechanical Turk workers $1 each to take the OCEAN quiz. There was just one catch: To take the quiz, users were required to provide access to all of their Facebook data. They were told the data would be used for research. The job was reported to Amazon for violating the platform’s Terms of Service. What many of the Turks likely didn’t realize: According to documents reviewed by The Guardian, “Kogan also captured the same data for each person’s unwitting friends.”