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Facebook Research Ethics
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What data is in your database?
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How did you gather it?
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How is the data being archived?
ArchivingData
“Tastes, Ties, and Time”
research project
Case
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Why are you releasing the data?
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To whom are you releasing the data?
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How is the data being released?
ReleasingData
Michael Zimmer
School of Information Studies
UW-Milwaukee
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“If it’s on Facebook, there’s no privacy”
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“We’ve anonymized the dataset”
Fallacies
Archiving Data
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Do you have just basic demographicinformation? (gender, # of friends, last active)
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Or, do you have sensitive / identifiableinformation (name, hometown, favorites)
What’s inyourdatabase?
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Did you obtain informed consent fromFacebook user to collect her data?
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Did you fool user into friending, or use anapplication to gain access?
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Did you use a bot to scrape profiles?
How didyou gatherit?
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Has it been “de-identified”?
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Is it encrypted? Restricted access?
How is itarchived?
Releasing Data
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Are you mandated to release the data?
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Do you feel all data wants to be free?
Why?
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Is the data publicly available to anyone?
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Are you screening requests to gain access?
To whom?
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Is all data being released?
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Has it been scrubbed or “anonymized”?
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Will you monitor use of the data?
How?
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