Showing posts with label UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in vestigating if Facebook broke law with emotional manipulation study. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in vestigating if Facebook broke law with emotional manipulation study. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Facebook experiment may have broken UK law; Aljazeera, 7/2/14

Aljazeera; Facebook experiment may have broken UK law:
"A British data regulator has been investigating whether Facebook Inc broke data protection laws when it allowed researchers to conduct a psychological experiment on nearly 700,000 users of the social network, the Financial Times reported.
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), which monitors how personal data is used, is probing the controversial experiment and plans to ask Facebook questions, the newspaper reported on Tuesday."