Posted on 07/06/2014 11:01:43 AM PDT by dalight
My colleague Kashmir Hill just reported that Facebook conducted their news feed manipulation four months before the term “research” was added to their data use policy, she writes:
However, we were all relying on what Facebook’s data policy says now. In January 2012, the policy did not say anything about users potentially being guinea pigs made to have a crappy day for science, nor that “research” is something that might happen on the platform.
Four months after this study happened, in May 2012, Facebook made changes to its data use policy, and that’s when it introduced this line about how it might use your information: “For internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.” Facebook helpfully posted a “red-line” version of the new policy, contrasting it with the prior version from September 2011— which did not mention anything about user information being used in “research.”
Kashmir’s story is worth reading in full, along with her earlier piece that digs deeper into the ethical and institutional review board issues, including a statement from Cornell “saying its IRB passed on reviewing the study because the part involving actual humans was done by Facebook not by the Cornell researcher involved in the study.”
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
I check once in a while to see pics of grand babies. Mostly, otherwise, I am somewhere else.”
That is what I do, too. But the other day I noticed that after I had been looking for a white denim jacket, it popped up store ads in my FB. So it is tracking us a lot.
So if anyone is shopping for guns and ammo, FB would get that. They probably know what food you might order from Amazon, so Moochie’s food Nazis know what you are doing.
“Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia”
You know this reminds me so much of where we are with Democrats and Republicans.. both on the take and playing games while they seriously propose people like Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton for President.
But, as to the terms of 1984.. you are so right on the money.
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