MASSIVE ethical failure and privacy violation by Dropbox

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: July 25, 2018 at 9:38:08 AM GMT+9
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] MASSIVE ethical failure and privacy violation by Dropbox
>
>
> 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--



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