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Facebook ‘studied its users in secret’

Facebook ‘studied its users in secret’
The Times, 06/01/2016, p.15, James Dean
Facebook has been accused of conducting an experiment on some users of its app without their consent. The article notes that Bernie Hogan, the chairman of the ethics review board at the University of Oxford’s Internet Institute, has called for a ‘Magna Carta for the digital age’ because of the exploitative nature of rogue social media research.