Suit To Let Researchers Break Website Rules Wins a Round (axios.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Anyone following Facebook's recent woes with Cambridge Analytica might be surprised to hear that there's a civil liberties argument for swiping data from websites, even while violating their terms of service. In fact, there's a whole world of situations where that thinking could apply: bona fide academic research. On Friday, a judge in a D.C. federal court ruled that an American Civil Liberties Union-backed case trying to guarantee researchers the ability to break sites' rules without being arrested could move forward, denying a federal motion to dismiss. "What we're talking about here is research in the public interest, finding out if there is discrimination," Esha Bhandari, an ACLU attorney representing the academics, told Axios.

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same argument used for experimentation on people?

[RhettLivingston]

Is this not the same argument used by doctors and governments throughout time for medical experimentation on prisoners and people who don't know they are being experimented on? Why would the ACLU of all organizations not see this?