Sure. But the study is quite specific: > The study aims to understand how websites would respond to real users, while accommodating websites that may have les

Sure. But the study is quite specific: > The study aims to understand how websites would respond to real users, while accommodating websites that may have less capacity to respond. That is, they're not interested in what the website's policies are via questionnaires. They're prodding them under false pretenses to see what would happen. This is definitely human subjects research.