4 ms·
I wonder how they got approval from the Northwestern Institutional Review Board. Not having explicit consent from research subjects might indicate that they qua
by pacbard 8y ago
I wonder how they got approval from the Northwestern Institutional Review Board. Not having explicit consent from research subjects might indicate that they qualified for some form of exempt status. Did they sell them that Dropbox collects that data as part of their normal operation, therefore consent is not required? Did they say that Dropbox's anonymization was enough to guarantee subjects' anonymity? Did they say that Dropbox's user agreement already enrolls users into research projects?
- fhsm 8y agoLooks easy enough to ask: https://irb.northwestern.edu/participants/questions-and-concerns https://irb.northwestern.edu/participants/questions-and-conc... Participant questions go to eyates@northwestern.edu and non-participant questions go to irb@northwestern.edu.
- ggg9990 8y agoAs a Dropbox paying customer and never having heard of the Northwestern Institutional Review Board it's not them that pisses me off. I haven't reconsidered my usage of Dropbox for a very long time, since I made the decision to stay with them after their no-password fiasco. Today is the first day in a long time.