"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."
Issues and developments related to ethics, information, and technologies, examined in the ethics and intellectual property graduate courses I teach at the University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information. My Bloomsbury book "Ethics, Information, and Technology" will be published in Summer 2025. Kip Currier, PhD, JD
Showing posts with label UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) in vestigating if Facebook broke law with emotional manipulation study. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Facebook experiment may have broken UK law; Aljazeera, 7/2/14
Aljazeera; Facebook experiment may have broken UK law:
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