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A bit of an odd one for me. Is the FTC in the business of deciding what research is "good faith" and "in the "public interest"? Could a company rely on such des
by RandomLensman 5y ago
A bit of an odd one for me. Is the FTC in the business of deciding what research is "good faith" and "in the "public interest"? Could a company rely on such designation from them in the future when making decisions?
- seanieb 5y agoIt's a government commission. That's it's entire purpose. "The FTC is a bipartisan federal agency with a unique dual mission to protect consumers and promote competition."
- RandomLensman 5y agoThank you - I did know that they have their own research on economics (in relation to antitrust, for example) but didn't realize they are "endorsing" (can't find a better word) outside research.
- ErikVandeWater 5y agoJust to note: Bipartisan does not mean apolitical. It just means it is represented by the two dominant parties.
- xg15 5y agoOh come on, the difference in this case is pretty obvious for anyone not working in advertising. Also, more formally: CA's research was violating privacy laws because it was gathering personal data from Facebook's users without their consent. This is not the case here. Individual users had to explicitly install a particular browser extension to participate in the research.
- bryan_w 5y ago> CA's research was violating privacy laws because it was gathering personal data from Facebook's users without their consent. It actually gathered data from fb users with explicit consent (a login with FB dialog along with a permissions dialog box). The app then scraped the public information of that user's friend's list. If you replace "friends list" with "ads list", it seems to have pretty strong similarities to what's happening here.
- xg15 5y agoWere the users actually aware of that permissions dialog box?