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Sun Jun 29 22:37:30 2014
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Facebook Tinkers With Users' Emotions in News Feed Experiment, Stirring Outcry
(NYTimes): http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinkers-with-users-emotions-in-news-feed-experiment-stirring-outcry.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
"Although academic protocols generally call for getting people's
consent before psychological research is conducted on them,
Facebook didn't ask for explicit permission from those it selected
for the experiment. It argued that its 1.28 billion monthly users
gave blanket consent to the company's research as a condition of
using the service. But the social network's manipulation of its
users' feelings without their knowledge stirred up its own
negative reaction. Some Facebook users and critics suggested that
the company had crossed an ethical boundary."
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I've been over the lengthy "Data Usage" section of the Facebook TOS a
half dozen times since this story broke. I frankly don't see how any
reasonable person could read that and believe that it gave permission
for the sort of outside-partnered psychological manipulation experiment
as in this case.
--Lauren--
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