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Harvard's Privacy Meltdown

Posted by timothy on from the that-cat-is-out-of-the-bag-and-has-a-degree dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A team of Harvard researchers has been accused of breaching students' privacy in a project that involved downloading information from some 1,700 Facebook profiles. The case shines a light on emerging ethical challenges faced by academics researching social networks and other online environments."

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  1. Isn't this how Facebook started? by Chrysocolla · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe one day, they will have a movie about themselves.