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You are misrepresenting the statement. The full quote is > I am dismayed that the emails in our study came across as security risks or legal threats. The inte
by jessriedel 5y ago
You are misrepresenting the statement. The full quote is
> I am dismayed that the emails in our study came across as security risks or legal threats. The intent of our study was to understand privacy practices, not to create a burden on website operators, email system operators, or privacy professionals. I sincerely apologize. I am the senior researcher, and the responsibility is mine.
He stated the negative impact they had on study subjects (including the interpretation as legal threats), accepted responsibility, and apologized without reservations. How can you possibly claim he wrote "nothing about the falsity of their legal threats"?
Researchers don't have to indicate they are doing an academic study. Ethical actions things don't become unethical simply because it's part of research.
- Beldin 5y ago> Researchers don't have to indicate they are doing an academic study. Actually, they do. Otherwise it's called deception research , which falls under very specific guidelines. In general, study participants should be treated decently. Deception research robs them of fully informed consent to participate in the study and is therefore by nature intently ethically over an edge. In specific cases, the benefit of the study's outcomes may offset the harm to its participants. Even then, that harm must be minimised.
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- jessriedel 5y agoSorry, you're right, that's not the right way to say it. What I meant was deception is wrong regardless of whether it's part of an experiment. If the emails had been sent out under different false pretenses, like criminals probing for weak points, it would have been just as wrong.