Facebook gave researcher anonymized data on 57 billion friendships

The Guardian reports today that Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogans relationship with Facebook wasnt limited to his now infamous thisisyourdigitallife app. He had actually also received an additional sizable chunk of data from Facebook that he used for a research paper published in 2015. This dataset, however, differs quite a bit from that collected through Kogans personality app. While large in volume, this other set was anonymized and aggregated with no personally …Read more