FTC Asked to 'Evaluate' Facebook's Research Methods — But Users Don't Care
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Sen. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, wants the Federal Trade Commission to inspect Facebook’s recently-revealed study of its users’ emotions and asked the agency to consider whether more stringent guidelines for conducting such research are necessary.
However, at least by one measure — use of Facebook credentials to login to other websites — everyday web users have few qualms about maintaining their addictions to the social network and convenient Facebook logins.
Though controversial among privacy wonks and academic researchers, the study and its ethical implications seem to have made little impression on the mainstream public and most Facebook users. Since June 28, when the Facbook research news started to percolate, logins via Facebook account information on non-Facebook sites barely budged, dipping from 43.6% to 43.3%. The data comes from Janrain, which helps clients including Universal Music Group and Dr Pepper manage social logins on their sites, and make use of the information associated with those logins. The company provides quarterly reports on the social platforms people use to login to sites across the web, including Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter and Linkedin.
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