In college (years ago...mid 2010s) I did a panel data regression analysis about certain types of behavior in the dorms. I conducted an anonymized survey, that a

In college (years ago...mid 2010s) I did a panel data regression analysis about certain types of behavior in the dorms. I conducted an anonymized survey, that asked a bunch of demographic and behavioral questions as well as ones about extra curriculars across several years. I was working on a “willingness to take risk” study. When cleaning the data (I allowed too much human entry in the first iteration of the survey) I could read the demo data and see the other activity responses and make quite confident inferences about who some of the respondents were. This Netflix thing is no surprise to me, unfortunately. I sort of feel like there should be some kind of code of ethics for Data Scientists, or maybe anyone that uses econometrics for making inferences about human behavior.