Facebook independent research commission ‘Social Science One’ will share a petabyte of user data
Back in April, Facebook announced that it would be working with a group of academics to establish an independent research commission to look into issues of social and political significance using the company's own extensive data collection. That commission just came out of stealth; it's called Social Science One, and its first project will have researchers analyzing about a petabyte's worth of sharing data....
News Posted By: TechCrunch - Wednesday, 11 July, 2018
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