Privacy Group Urges Investigation Into Facebook for Emotion Study

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A privacy and digital rights group has launched the first challenge in the United States against Facebook for its controversial emotion manipulation study.

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), a public interest research center, filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), accusing Facebook of failing to inform its users of the experiment, deceptive trade practices and of effectively manipulating users' minds, and urging the FTC to open an investigation

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"The company purposefully messed with people’s minds," the complaint read. Read more...

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