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Anyone could download Cambridge researchers’ 4-million-user Facebook data set for years –

Accepted submission by MrPlow at 2018-05-15 15:54:49
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MrPlow [soylentnews.org] writes:

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A dataset of over 3 million Facebook users and a variety of their personal details collected by Cambridge researchers was available for anyone to download for some four years, New Scientist reports. It's likely only one of many places where such huge sets of personal data collected during a period …

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/05/14/anyone-could-download-cambridge-researchers-4-million-user-facebook-dataset-for-years/ [techcrunch.com]

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