The 'Facebook online social experiment' has caused much controversy. Researchers Cornelius Puschmann and Engin Bozdag review the debate around research ethics and come to the conclusion that "benefits for science should be balanced with possible hazards that may be caused by experiments, rather than precluding that such benefits outweigh the gains
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Technical standardisation is caught up in politics. At the 88th IETF meeting starting today in Vancouver engineers discuss reactions to mass surveillance.