'Many purposes' include research into how emotion spreads through social networks. Recently, a lot of people were upset after a paper (http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full) was published by a facebook data scientist.
This was in the data use policy: How we use the information we receive > We use the information we receive about you in connection with the > services and features we provide to you and other users like your friends, > our partners, the advertisers that purchase ads on the site, and the > developers that build the games, applications, and websites you use. For > example, in addition to helping people see and find things that you do and > share, we may use the information we receive about you: > as part of our efforts to keep Facebook products, services and > integrations safe and secure; > to protect Facebook's or others' rights or property; > to provide you with location features and services, like telling you and > your friends when something is going on nearby; > to measure or understand the effectiveness of ads you and others see, > including to deliver relevant ads to you; > to make suggestions to you and other users on Facebook, such as: > suggesting that your friend use our contact importer because you found > friends using it, suggesting that another user add you as a friend because > the user imported the same email address as you did, or suggesting that > your friend tag you in a picture they have uploaded with you in it; and > for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, > testing, *research* and service improvement. On Sunday, May 19, 2013 2:53:52 AM UTC-7, Suzanne Azmayesh wrote: > > > > Title : Facebook uses your data for many purposes > > Topic : Personal data > > Summary : Facebook uses your data for many purposes, including data > analysis, testing, service improvement, control of the effectiveness of the > personal ads, and location features and services. > > Score suggested : bad, 40 > > Quotation from the site if you are interested > We use the information we receive about you in connection with the > services and features we provide to you and other users like your friends, > our partners, the advertisers that purchase ads on the site, and the > developers that build the games, applications, and websites you use. For > example, in addition to helping people see and find things that you do and > share, we may use the information we receive about you: > > - as part of our efforts to keep Facebook products, services and > integrations safe and secure; > - to protect Facebook's or others' rights or property; > - to provide you with location features and services, like telling you > and your friends when something is going on nearby; > - to measure or understand the effectiveness of ads you and others > see, including to deliver relevant ads to you; > - to make suggestions to you and other users on Facebook, such as: > suggesting that your friend use our contact importer because you found > friends using it, suggesting that another user add you as a friend because > the user imported the same email address as you did, or suggesting that > your friend tag you in a picture they have uploaded with you in it; and > - for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, > testing, research and service improvement. > > > > -- tosdr.org | twitter.com/tosdr | github.com/tosdr --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Terms of Service; Didn't Read" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tosdr. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
