Facebook’s New Data Restrictions Will Handcuff Even Honest Researchers

Facebook’s New Data Restrictions Will Handcuff Even Honest Researchers

Last week, when news broke (again) that Cambridge Analytica had allegedly misused 50 million Facebook users’ data, it immediately raised a difficult question: When a company possesses information about some 2 billion people, is its chief obligation to share that information, or protect it? The answer’s not as obvious as you might think. To social …