Facebook Inc plans a stricter review of requests to access information on its 1.32 billion active users after a psychological experiment on unwitting users in 2012 created a furor on social media.<\/p>\n
There will be a stricter review of requests for research, for internal work or academic purposes, that deals with personal content or specific groups of people, Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer wrote.<\/p>\n
He did not elaborate on the new guidelines.<\/p>\n
Facebook said new engineers will be educated on the company’s research practices during training.<\/p>\n
Any academic research that Facebook undertakes will now be published on a single site.<\/p>\n
A Facebook spokesman acknowledged in July that an experiment on nearly 700,000 users in 2012 had upset users and said the company would change the way it handled research.<\/p>\n
In the study, Facebook experimented with the emotional states of users to prompt them to post either more positive or negative content on their news feeds.<\/p>\n
“Although this subject matter was important to research, we were unprepared for the reaction the paper received when it was published,” Schroepfer wrote on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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