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The Independent Student Newspaper at Boston University.

The Daily Free Press

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EDITORIAL: Facebook is rightfully subpoenaed for its careless oversight of survey platform

EDITORIAL: Facebook is rightfully subpoenaed for its careless oversight of survey platform

Editors January 27, 2020
To a certain extent, we do have control over the type of information that goes into cyberspace and out of our hands. When Facebook users agreed to participate in a survey from the Cambridge Analytica app, “This is Your Digital Life,” they agreed to release certain answers for the purpose of academic research. What they did not consent to was giving a politically motivated firm all of their personal information as well as access to all of their social network’s personal information.
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