From Framingham to Facebook: the contagion of controversy
April 1, 2015…RB) approval (Kramer et al. PNAS USA 2014;111:8788-8790; free full text at www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full.pdf). Facebook has argued that users agree to the company’s data use policy when they sign up, which constitutes informed consent. Cornell has stated that its IRB ruled that the project was not subject to the university’s Human Research Protection Program. PNAS USA normally adheres to the Health and Human Services Policy for the Protect…