Bad Data “For Good”: How Data Brokers Try to Hide in Academic Research | Electronic Frontier Foundation
date linked: 16 August 2022
source: link to article, from eff.org
I hadn’t realized so many academics were working with data brokers. It’s kind of scary! The EFF has some good points here about so-called “data for good”—and rightly brings up that ethics review boards should be thinking about this sort of thing.
- research
- digital methods
- IRBs
- ethics review boards
- data ethics
- location data
- data brokers
- research ethics
- EFF
- data for good
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