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I don't know. If it's just an address, you can get it from Google Maps Street View. To find out who is in a specific address is what makes it personal.

michaelt 8y ago
A list of addresses usually has some context* - the combination of the address and the context could be personal. For example, a list of customers' addresses for a sex toy shop would be personal even though it was a subset of the non-personal list of all addresses. *unless it's just a list of every address in the country, obviously
- letsgetphysITal 8y ago
  I disagree. The turkers don't need to know that they're extracting the "country, state (or equivalent), city," from a list of adult store customers in order to extract that data. Sharing the context is superfluous to requirements in this instance, so likely is not included in the task mandate.
  - Harvey-Specter 8y ago
    That information wouldn't be directly included, but some account has to post the hit. That account is either associated with some company or some person who works for some company.
    - letsgetphysITal 8y ago
      Why would Amazon pass that information to turkers? "Find city, county, state in this list and post in the three boxes "City" "County" "State" in the web form." is literally all the information required for this task. All of the rest can be handled by Amazon's staff, or more likely automated processes. The turker need not know for whom they do the work, or why. They could be processing marketing communications, or census returns, or credit card applications, or literally anything else where an address may be used.
      - Harvey-Specter 8y ago
        mTurkers get to pick and choose which hits they want to work on. They see a list of available hits, and each has a title, description, submitter, estimated time, and reward. The submitter matters to mTurkers because this allows them to see the hit acceptance rate (how often the submitter pays out on submissions, or how often they reject submissions). So it's simply a fact of the platform that mTurkers know who they are working for.
        infogulch 8y ago
        Does the submitter have to use their or their company's real name? As long as it does the job of a name (stable, recognizable) it could be any name and still accomplish the goal of letting the MT worker sift through hits.
        Harvey-Specter 8y ago
        I don't think there is any requirement to use real names.
        letsgetphysITal 8y ago
        Did not know that. Seems... Weird. Thanks.

michaelt 8y ago

A list of addresses usually has some context* - the combination of the address and the context could be personal. For example, a list of customers' addresses for a sex toy shop would be personal even though it was a subset of the non-personal list of all addresses. *unless it's just a list of every address in the country, obviously

letsgetphysITal 8y ago
I disagree. The turkers don't need to know that they're extracting the "country, state (or equivalent), city," from a list of adult store customers in order to extract that data. Sharing the context is superfluous to requirements in this instance, so likely is not included in the task mandate.
- Harvey-Specter 8y ago
  That information wouldn't be directly included, but some account has to post the hit. That account is either associated with some company or some person who works for some company.
  - letsgetphysITal 8y ago
    Why would Amazon pass that information to turkers? "Find city, county, state in this list and post in the three boxes "City" "County" "State" in the web form." is literally all the information required for this task. All of the rest can be handled by Amazon's staff, or more likely automated processes. The turker need not know for whom they do the work, or why. They could be processing marketing communications, or census returns, or credit card applications, or literally anything else where an address may be used.
    - Harvey-Specter 8y ago
      mTurkers get to pick and choose which hits they want to work on. They see a list of available hits, and each has a title, description, submitter, estimated time, and reward. The submitter matters to mTurkers because this allows them to see the hit acceptance rate (how often the submitter pays out on submissions, or how often they reject submissions). So it's simply a fact of the platform that mTurkers know who they are working for.
      - infogulch 8y ago
        Does the submitter have to use their or their company's real name? As long as it does the job of a name (stable, recognizable) it could be any name and still accomplish the goal of letting the MT worker sift through hits.
        Harvey-Specter 8y ago
        I don't think there is any requirement to use real names.
      - letsgetphysITal 8y ago
        Did not know that. Seems... Weird. Thanks.