Sentences with phrase «guise of academic research»
The harvested user information, collected under the guise of academic research, included the private social media activity of more than 50 million people.
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These articles revealed how Cambridge Analytica obtained access to the personal details and lifestyle preferences of over 50 million users by using a team of academics to gather the data under the guise of scientific research [NY Times, The Guardian].
After enlisting a former journalist to contact former Gawker interns under the guise of «academic research,» Forbes reported, Harder assembled the most willing plaintiffs before his firm «passed them off» to a New York labor firm, which filed the suit in June 2013.