Posted on 10/02/2014 12:25:19 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Facebook said Thursday that future research on its 1.3 billion users would be subjected to greater internal scrutiny from top managers, especially if they focused on “deeply personal topics” or specific groups of people.
But no outside body will review Facebook’s research projects, and the company declined to disclose what guidelines it would use to decide whether research was appropriate. Nor did it indicate whether it will get consent from users for projects like its emotion manipulation study, which set off a global furor when it was disclosed this summer.
In essence, Facebook’s message is the same as it has always been: Trust us, we promise to do better.
(Excerpt) Read more at mobile.nytimes.com ...
We’re Farcebook, the tech wing of the democrat party.
Facebook is nothing more than a left-winged political action committee, actively being traded, like the crony capitalist organization it is, on the stock market. They don’t value privacy or differing points of view, unless you happen to belong to the jackbooted crossdresser brigade. The website is just a smoke screen.
And an open platform for identity thieves, scammers, pedophiles, and perhaps even worse.
Dating sites are the perfect platform for that sort of activity as well.
Don’t forget jihadists...
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