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U.S. lawmaker asks FTC to probe implications of Facebook 'big data' experiment

2014-07-10 13:47:48| InfoWorld: Top News

A U.S. senator has asked the Federal Trade Commission to scrutinize the use of big data by Facebook and other Internet companies, following a controversy over a Facebook experiment on some of its users. "... I think the industry could benefit from a conversation about what are the appropriate rules of the road going forward," Senator Mark R. Warner of Virginia said in a statement.

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