Mining large amounts of data can develop a number of benefits for business, society,and governments, but it can also develop a number of ethical questions surrounding aninvasion of privacy or misuse of data. Facebook recently came under fire for its datamining practices as it followed 700,000 accounts to determine whether posts withhighly emotional content are more contagious. The study concluded that highly emotional texts are contagious, just as emotions are contagious with real people. Highlyemotional positive posts received multiple positive replies, whereas highly emotionalnegative posts received multiple negative replies. Although the study seems ratherinnocent, many Facebook users were outraged; they felt the study was an invasion ofprivacy because the 700,000 accounts had no idea Facebook was mining their posts.As a Facebook user, you willingly consent that Facebook owns every bit and byte ofdata you post, and once you press submit, Facebook can do whatever it wants withyour data. Do you agree or disagree that Facebook has the right to do whatever itwants with the data its 1.5 billion users post on its site?