[Air-L] public/private

[Ed Lamoureux]

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.


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