Internet’s biggest social media platform Facebook has revealed details on how the website uses personal information of its subscribers for research purpose.
Facebook Inc published new details, amid a number of efforts to create privacy and ethical standards for corporate research involving human data. According to Wall Street Journal, the social network collects data of its roughly 1.6 billion users, which is used to determine behavior patterns i.e. voting habits, relationship status etc.
As per reports, Facebook announced it was adding an internal review process in October.
Because “the issues of how to deal with research in an industry setting aren’t unique to Facebook,” said Molly Jackman, Facebook’s public-policy research manager, the company therefore decided to release more details, .
Reports informed that in order to assess the ethical impact of its research efforts, Facebook set up a five-person review panel, which includes experts in law and ethics. The review group is modelled on the institutional review boards (IRBs) that assess the ethics of human-subject research at academic institutions.
The manager are responsible to determine that a research project deals with sensitive topics i.e. mental health, the study then gets a detailed review by the group to weigh risks and benefits, and also considers whether it is in line with consumers' expectations
Managers have also been authorised to simply approve proposals that seem harmless. They are responsible to decide which research gets a full review.
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