Photos: 2014 in review: The year in privacy outrages
In June, three data scientists published a peer-reviewed research paper revealing that they had manipulated hundreds of thousands of Facebook users’ news feeds for a week to see how they would respond. Specifically, the scientists used software to analyze the emotional content of posts, then altered the news feeds for some users to pack in more happy posts, and for others to make them disproportionately sad. (Wes Bausmith / Los Angeles Times)
Actress Jennifer Lawrence arrives for the Los Angeles premiere of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1.” Lawrence was one of dozens of women whose revealing selfies apparently made their way from Apple’s iCloud storage site to a voyeuristic bulletin board on the 4chan website. (Robyn Beck / AFP/Getty Images)
ING, a major Dutch bank, announced a novel initiative in March that must have seemed like a good idea to someone at the time: it would deliver targeted ads to its customers based on how they’d been spending their money. (Laurent Cilluffo / For the Times)
Apple CEO Tim Cook, left, greets Bono from the band U2 after they preformed at the end of an Apple event in Cupertino on Sept. 9. The company announced that it was giving U2’s latest album to all iTunes users as a gift, drawing complaints from many who were unpleasantly surprised to find that the songs had downloaded automatically onto their iPhones, iPads and laptops. (Marcio Jose Sanchez / AP)