Sunday, 6 July 2014

Official complaint filed over Facebook emotion study

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An official complaint has been filed to the US Federal Trade Commission about a Facebook experiment that manipulated the emotional state of users.
The study was carried out for one week in 2012 and targeted almost 700,000 users by varying the personalised content sent to their Facebook pages.
The complaint was filed by digital rights group the Electronic Privacy Information Center (Epic).
Facebook said it had no comment to make about the complaint.

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