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I want your (anonymized) social media data

  • Written by Anthony Sanford, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Washington
Balancing personal privacy with detailed insights.Dawn Hudson/Shutterstock.com

Social media sites’ responses to the Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal and new European privacy regulations have given users much more control over who can access their data, and for what purposes. To me, as a social media user, these are positive developments:...

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