• Gigaom, Monday, December 1, 2014 11:53 AM

UK government officials have taken time off from attacking Google to slam top social networks and their abstruse terms and conditions. According to a UK parliamentary committee, “the unsuitability of the T&Cs had been demonstrated by episodes such as Facebook’s emotion-manipulation study, in which Facebook deliberately made some of its users sad as an experiment,” GigaOm reports. According to a new report from the government’s Science and Technology Committee: “We have not been convinced that the users of social media platforms are fully aware of how their data might be used.”

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