Stansberry offers insights for article on Facebook data controversy

Kathleen Stansberry, assistant professor of communications, was recently featured in an article exploring the fallout from the Facebook data-sharing controversy. 

Stansberry was interviewed by reporter Jessica Seaman with the Triad Business Journal for a piece that looked at how other companies that rely upon “big data” might be responding following public outcry over the sharing of Facebook data. The outcry followed revelations that publicly available personal data from Facebook was aggregated and then leveraged by the analytics firm Cambridge Analytica. 

Stansberry told the Triad Business Journal that the volume of mainstream media coverage of these issues “will bring further pressure on internet companies to be more transparent about their processes.

“And maybe, a hopefully better understanding that this data is powerful and needs to be used in ways that are responsible,” Stansberry said. 

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