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When conducting social media research, scholars inherently examine people’s personal lives due to the nature of social media engagement. While some so…
Alphabet Inc's Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists' papers by launching a "sensitive topics" review, and in at least three cases requested authors refrain from casting its technology in a negative light, according to internal communications and...
Nature - Journals and researchers are under fire for controversial studies using this technology. And a Nature survey reveals that many researchers in this field think there is a problem.
The old ethics rules are no longer offering adequate protection to field research subjects, according to two leading social scientists from Brown and Pennsylvania State Universities—and as a result, ...
Introduction to concepts and basic techniques for disclosure analysis and protection of personal and health identifiers in research data for public or restricted access, following applicable JHU data governance policies. See Overview section for details.
There has been significant analysis of the ethical and regulatory issues involved with paying research participants, but less attention has been focused specifi...
When most of us think of how the concept of “data” has been skewered by the press, we’re probably thinking about an app’s location data tipping off our home address, or apps like Grindr tipping advertisers off about our sexuality. What’s less scrutinized, both by the public and by those in public office, is data that’s…
Nice example of threat modeling
A real problem for any research method relying on humans (e.g. crowdsourcing) to classify utterances. Suggested mitigator at end.
Ethics "training" can be counterproductive. Asking people "why are you ethical?" reinforces their presupposition that they ARE, giving them license not to be.
Former workers reveal "questionable and misleading methods" used to obtain facial scans.
With criticism of facial recognition resulting in bans across the country, companies are looking to improve the technology. However, the New York Daily News recently found that Google's attempts to improve facial recognition resulted in questionable…
How to ethically conduct online platform-based research remains an unsettled issue and the source of continued controversy. The Facebook emotional contagion stu...
“Digital exhaust” from online life could be transformed into health insights. Should it be?
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