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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. Facebook privacy? by SEWilco · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So privacy was violated by reading what the students chose to publish on Facebook? Just think of all the privacy violations the students do when they read the college course descriptions!