Dave Farber
2018-07-25 00:39:55 UTC
Date: July 25, 2018 at 9:38:08 AM GMT+9
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 ...
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--Lauren--
-------------------------------------------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 ...
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--Lauren--
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