6. Facebook claims that they did nothing wrong and actually did receive "informed consent"
because of the data privacy policy all of their users agreed to when opening up their Facebook
accounts. The policy includes this line: "...in addition to helping people see and find things that
you do and share, we may use the information we receive about you... for internal operations,
including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement." Do you
agree that this policy does enough to count as informed consent? Please explain your reasoning.
7. You learned in Chapter 7 that there are times when exceptions can be made to the informed
consent process. For example, education research studies with normal classroom activities
posing no unusual risks may not need informed consent, nor might behavioral studies that are
conducted in public places. Do you believe that social media sites like Facebook, Twitter,
Instagram, etc. should count as a "public place"? Please explain.
8. You learned in Chapter 7 about the difference between confidentiality and anonymity. Facebook
knew who all of the individuals were who participated in their experiment, and they knew what
each of these individuals had posted, but when they published the results of their experiment,
Facebook did not publish any individual identifying information about each participant. Based
on this information, would you consider the results to be anonymous and confidential? Please
explain.