As the Facebook fiasco unfolds, one image sticks in my mind: that of the Cambridge Psychometrics Centre physically nestled inside the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. It calls itself a “strategic research network”, meaning it does research, but also sells its services to commercial companies. It has come to international attention because its studies informed the development of an app that passed data from Facebook to Cambridge Analytica . The case highlights worryingly blurred boundaries between business and academic research.
Facebook數(shù)據(jù)泄露丑聞曝出后，一幅畫面縈繞在我的腦海中，我不斷地想到劍橋大學(xué)心理測(cè)驗(yàn)中心(Cambridge Psychometrics Centre)。該中心坐落于劍橋大學(xué)(University of Cambridge)佳奇商學(xué)院(Judge Business School)內(nèi)，它自稱是一個(gè)“戰(zhàn)略研究網(wǎng)絡(luò)”，這意味著它從事研究工作，但它同時(shí)也向商業(yè)公司出售服務(wù)。該中心已經(jīng)引起了國際關(guān)注，因?yàn)樗难芯看俪闪艘粋€(gè)應(yīng)用程序(APP)的開發(fā)，該APP將數(shù)據(jù)從Facebook傳輸給劍橋分析(Cambridge Analytica)。此事突顯了商業(yè)和學(xué)術(shù)研究之間令人擔(dān)憂的模糊界限。