Posts tagged SOCIAL MEDIA
Facebook: A Breach in the Wall

The simple story is this: Facebook exposed data on up to 87 million users to Cambridge Analytica, which used the data for a major political campaign. The longer story is about the explosive research and development of the technology that allowed this to happen to begin with, and what other things these technologies are capable of doing with our data and the length of their reach. To blow the lid on this from a technological perspective, it makes sense to look at Facebook’s patent portfolio as a solid starting point.

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Research Trends in Social Networks and their Use

The primary purpose of SNS is to facilitate communication between individuals, but SNS also contain widely variant and voluminous data, often referred to as “big data.” As a result, some researchers are investigating applications for purposes other than communication by extracting and analyzing the data they need from SNS. In fact, numerous companies are conducting market analyses and pursuing policies to reduce customer complaints using SNS data, and other companies are developing services for these purposes.

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