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US lawmaker asks FTC to probe implications of Facebook 'big data' experiment |
July 10, 2014
A U.S. senator has asked the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize the use of big data by Facebook and other Internet companies, following a controversy over a Facebook experiment on some of its users.“....I think the industry could benefit from a conversation about what are the appropriate rules of the road going forward,” Senator Mark R. Warner of Virginia said in a statement.His comments Wednesday follow widespread outrage over a 2012 experiment by Facebook which adjusted the content of news feeds of 689,003 English-speaking users to study the impact on their moods.In a letter to the FTC, Warner has asked whether the Facebook experiment violates the agency’s consent agreement of 2011 with the company and also section 5 of the FTC Act which prohibits ‘’unfair or deceptive acts or practices.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2452660/us-lawmaker-asks-ftc-to-probe-implications-of-facebook-big-data-experiment.html#tk.rss_all
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