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"The ethics panel member added: "Facebook is rather deceptive on this and creates the appearance of a cosy and confidential peer group environment, as a means o
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"The ethics panel member added: "Facebook is rather deceptive on this and creates the appearance of a cosy and confidential peer group environment, as a means of gulling users into disclosing private information that they then sell to advertisers, but this doesn't make it right to an ethical researcher to follow their lead.""
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/cambridge-university-rejected-facebook-study-over-deceptive-privacy-standards https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/cambridge...
The article discusses the Cambridge University ethics committee rejection of proposal for use of Facebook app to gather data.
Anyone have a non-scribd link to the full comments from the ethics committee members?
When the Facebook CTO recently testified before the UK Parliament, at one point they laughed at him for being so blatently insincere.
Facebook is now copying Reddit/HN up/downvotes, trial in NZ/AUS.