[Air-l] AOL and research ethics

[Ericka Menchen Trevino]

I'm wondering what kind of sanitization method(s) would have worked in
this case?

Ericka Menchen Trevino
Graduate Student
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago

On 8/29/06, Barry Wellman <wellman at chass.utoronto.ca> wrote:
> Besides legal stuff, it's clear that AOL didn't follow what's SOP
> procedures for preserving respondent, privacy in the social sciences. They
> thought they were by not directly releasing user-holder's name and
> accounts, but were so eager to be helpful that they didn't sanitize the
> data well.
> Always a concern, but one routinely dealt.
> OK, I gotta stop myself or else I go on another rant about computer
> scientists not knowing any social science -- in this case methods.
>  Barry
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