July 3, 2014

Thursday News: Facebook’s many experiments, Canada’s new anti-spam law, World Book Night US says goodnight, and two writers debate book categories

JanetPublishing NewsCanada / diversity / Facebook / immigrant fiction / informed consent / Literary fiction / privacy / research / spam / World Book Night8 Comments

Facebook Experiments Had Few Limits – Now here’s a surprise (not): Facebook seems to think it can do whatever the hell it wants to its users, because you’ve signed a TOS (which apparently now says your data can be used for research). the Data Science group has basically worked with ... more >

June 30, 2014

Monday News: Facebook screws with its users, the Netherlands tests the resale of digital books, a new documentary on Amazon, and The Princess Bride gets Legoed

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / copyright / digital books / documentary / Facebook / first sale doctrine / informed consent / Legos / piracy / Princess Bride / privacy / research / used bookstores20 Comments

Facebook Doesn’t Understand The Fuss About Its Emotion Manipulation Study – So Facebook, which appears to have zero respect for its users privacy, has also been intentionally manipulating content by way of “experimentation,” relying on the Terms of Service to compensate for actual informed consent. Worse, two academic researchers from ... more >