Facebook's Ex-Security Chief Details His 'Observatory' for Internet Abuse | WIRED

That's the idea behind the Stanford Internet Observatory, founded with a $5 million donation from Craigslist creator Craig Newmark, and part of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center where Stamos is a visiting professor. It aspires to be a central outlet for the study of all manner of internet abuse, assembling for visiting researchers the necessary machine learning tools, big data analysts, and perhaps most importantly, access to major tech platforms' user data—a key to the project that may hinge on which tech firms cooperate, and to what degree.