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nerdponx
on Dec 30, 2016
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Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial
How do you know there's zero user benefit? I can think of several legitimate/non-evil uses of "shadow profiles" in product research.
confounded
on Dec 31, 2016
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Well, if you came home and I was wearing your partner's dressing-gown and smoking your pipe, I'm sure I could offer a few non-evil research reasons too.
What's the user benefit you have in mind?
nerdponx
on Jan 3, 2017
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Non-users represent an "unexposed" control group for experiments.
confounded
on Jan 4, 2017
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Not a user benefit (or methodologically sound).
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