ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland Attorney General Doug Gansler said Wednesday his office will review allegations by a University of Maryland law professor that Facebook and OKCupid violated a state law by manipulating customer data as part of company research.
Gansler said his office received a letter this week from James Grimmelmann, a law professor at the Francis King Carey School of Law at the University of Maryland, who contends the companies have violated a 2002 Maryland law that requires any research on human subjects to have informed consent of the people involved and approval by an ethical review panel.
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