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Anything “public” on social media may be fair game, but researchers should be more ethical about using that data
The ‘Revised Common Rule’ took effect on January 21, 2019, marking the first change since 2005 to the federal regulation that governs human subjects research co
Students were recorded for research—and then became part of a data set that lives forever online, potentially accessible to anyone.
Researchers employed the surveillance footage data to test and improve facial recognition technology. The data has been linked to the Chinese government’s surveillance of ethnic minorities.
Facebook shut down its Research and Onavo programs after TechCrunch exposed how the company paid teenagers for root access to their phones to gain market data on competitors. Now Facebook is relaunching its paid market research program, but this time with principles — namely transparency, fair compensation and safety. The goal? To find out which other […]
It’s publicly available information—but most people can’t really wrap their heads around the idea that their YouTube video could be used in this way.
There are growing discontinuities between the research practices of data science and established tools of research ethics regulation. Some of the core commitmen...
The parallel rise of pervasive data collection platforms and computational methods for collecting, analyzing, and drawing inferences from large quantities of us...
Whatever happened to the ethics of engineering? We’ve seen just one disastrous news story after another these past few years, almost all knowable and preventable. Planes falling out of the sky. Nuclear power plants melting down. Foreign powers engorging on user data. Environmental testing thrashed. Electrical grids burning states to the ground. The patterns are […]
Nature - Forty years on from a foundational report on how to protect people participating in research, cracks are showing, warns Nathaniel Raymond.
Study from scholars at Johns Hopkins University found that insider education research shows 70 percent more benefits to students than independent research.
Stewards of social science data face a fundamental tension. On one hand, they want to make their data accessible to as many researchers as possible to facilitate new discoveries. At the same time,...
Desperate for data on its competitors, Facebook has been secretly paying people to install a “Facebook Research” VPN that lets the company suck in all of a user’s phone and web activity, similar to Facebook’s Onavo Protect app that Apple banned in June and that was removed in August. Facebook sidesteps the App Store and […]
Nature Electronics - Europe’s data protection laws must evolve to guard against pervasive inferential analytics in nascent digital technologies such as edge computing.
Computational Social Science (SOC 596), Fall 2016 - soc596_f2016/slides at master · msalganik/soc596_f2016
Educational Technology Research and Development - The growth of learning analytics as a means to improve student learning outcomes means that student data is being collected, analyzed, and applied...
With the expansion and popularity of research on websites such as Facebook and Twitter, there has been increasing concern about investigator conduct and social media ethics. The availability of...
Notably, these criteria for exclusion focus on the status of the dataset (e.g., is it public? does it already exist?), not the content of the dataset nor what will be done with the dataset, which are more accurate criteria for determining the risk profile of the proposed research.