On 29 Jun 2016, at 1:00, Shivram Krishnan wrote:
Hello Bill,
Thank you so much for your views. I agree that your customers would
not
like it if you share information. But Oliver suggested , I need only
the
source IP addresses of the Spam and Ham emails , which can even be
anonymized in the last octet.
Will that still be a privacy concern?
No, but there would still be a data collection and preparation cost that
is substantial and a fundamental study design problem: you have no
controls for data validity or sampling issues.
In total honesty: if your approach to this research has been cleared by
your faculty advisor and not stopped, that advisor is either incompetent
or is intentionally sabotaging you. You cannot gather a valid data set
this way and the data you are asking for cannot even be verified to be
anything other than pure invention. If your advisor does not see that,
they are in the wrong profession.
