Not sharing users' data with researchers or academics: Facebook

Facebook on Wednesday stressed it is not collecting or sharing personal or location data of its users with partners
Not sharing users' data with researchers or academics: Facebook

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook on Wednesday stressed it is not collecting or sharing personal or location data of its users with partners like academics, researchers and humanitarian professionals to deal with global crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.

The social networking giant said it has created a differential privacy framework that protects the privacy of individuals in aggregated datasets by ensuring no one can identify specific people in these datasets.

In 2017, the company launched 'Data for Good' with the goal of empowering partners with data to help make progress on major social issues.

Over the past few months, public health researchers have used data sets released by Facebook to inform decisions around COVID-19 across Asia, Europe and North America.

"Data for Good simply aggregates data we collect from our apps and shares it in a de-identified way to help researchers, academics and others address humanitarian crises and social issues," Facebook said. (IANS)

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