MASSIVE ethical failure and privacy violation by Dropbox
https://www.wired.com/story/dropbox-sharing-data-study-ethics/ But it still appears this research was conducted without the express consent of the thousands of customers whose information Dropbox and the researchers accessed (the HBR article originally suggested that 400,000 users' data was analyzed, while Dropbox says that the study dealt with data from 16,000 customers). Late Tuesday HBR added a second editors' note indicating that the researchers started with information on 400,000 "unique users" but pared the data set down to 16,000 after incorporating data from Web of Science. HBR editors also updated the article to indicate that it wasn't 1,000 universities that were included, but rather 1,000 separate departments. Informed consent, one of the cornerstones of academic research, is one of the things that got Facebook in so much trouble back in 2014 ... - - - --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
