[Air-l] re IRBs vs. secure technologies

[Sandra Braman]

Mark Johns -- Thanks for sharing that information
regarding common IRB practices concerning text
explaining how INSECURE web-based research
can be.  I'm still wondering, however, how
commonplace it is to use secure technologies
to protect web-based research inputs.  Whatever
an IRB is requiring in terms of text, description of
the use of such technologies could also be included
in introductions to surveys and other instruments,
would certainly be more reassuring to participants,
would actually provide greater protections for
confidentiality than is otherwise the case, and
may even begin to reassure IRBs that it is not
such a to-be-feared research environment in the
long run.  Anyone out there with experience using
secure technologies for web-based research
purposes, or know how they have been used
and how widely?

Thanks again --

Sandra Braman