[Air-L] public/private
Ed Lamoureux
ell at bumail.bradley.edu
Sat Aug 11 16:15:29 PDT 2007
On Aug 11, 2007, at 5:46 PM, Lois Ann Scheidt wrote:
> So would ten random people on the street be harmed if I took their
> public words and used them in a study?
if their words weren't traceable to them as individuals . . . and
those words were in public . . . would probably be ok
But their pictures are traceable directly to them... for years to
come . . . if that's the data . . .then to protect them from
harm.... by given them a chance to decide if they want to be involved
in research in which their data is connected to them . . . you'd need
to ask.
I didn't bring photos into the discussion. But they ARE an
interesting addition.... in that they illustrate, by analogy, the
problem on the web, with words.
Often, now, words CAN BE TRACED BACK TO THEIR ORIGINATOR in ways that
f-2-f data that we collected and protected cannot.
Edward Lee Lamoureux, Ph. D.
Associate Professor, Multimedia Program
and Department of Communication
Co-Director, New Media Center
1501 W. Bradley
Bradley University
Peoria IL 61625
309-677-2378
<http://slane.bradley.edu/com/faculty/lamoureux/website2/index.html>
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