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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by nerdponx on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:29AM (#13284497)
How do you know there's zero user benefit? I can think of several legitimate/non-evil uses of "shadow profiles" in product research.
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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by confounded on Saturday December 31, 2016 @03:22AM (#13290125)
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?

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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by nerdponx on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @12:12PM (#13310703)
Non-users represent an "unexposed" control group for experiments.
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Re:Facebook’s Face Recognition Tech Goes on Trial by confounded on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @03:16AM (#13316572)
Not a user benefit (or methodologically sound).
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