[Air-L] Subject: Re: [External] Re: Buying tweets ?

[Sandrine Roginsky]

Dear all, 

Many thanks to all the persons who took the time to reply to my mail and provided me with a lot of good for thought! 

Have a nice week and thank you again, 
Sandrine 

Le 11/09/20 01:17, « Air-L au nom de Ushnish Sengupta » <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org au nom de ushnish.sengupta at gmail.com> a écrit :

    Hello
    I am genuinely curious about how the ethics of research on available
    personal data is implemented. As a relatively new academic I would love to
    do this type of research but see many ethical hurdles. I have stuck to the
    organizational level rather than looking at data at the level of
    individuals, which to me is fraught with ethical data extraction and
    exploitation issues.

    When Clearview AI used data on publicly available images, many of us said
    it was unethical.  I have always wondered how a research study such as the
    infamous gaydar experiment passed ethics protocols at a reputable post
    secondary academic institution.
    https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fartificial-intelligence%2F2018%2F02%2F20%2Fopinion-the-stanford-gaydar-ai-is-hogwash%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csandrine.roginsky%40uclouvain.be%7Cb0b1fcc50d984ff3c07308d855dfa941%7C7ab090d4fa2e4ecfbc7c4127b4d582ec%7C0%7C0%7C637353766384995259&sdata=5vq7GLmdAegwJa3E0UBm%2BkrWK1D%2FHUUgEPwTnR%2BKFoc%3D&reserved=0

    And from studies such as the one done recently by Mozilla
    https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zdnet.com%2Farticle%2Fmozilla-research-browsing-histories-are-unique-enough-to-reliably-identify-users%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csandrine.roginsky%40uclouvain.be%7Cb0b1fcc50d984ff3c07308d855dfa941%7C7ab090d4fa2e4ecfbc7c4127b4d582ec%7C0%7C0%7C637353766385000247&sdata=iWUg94mGXloa%2Bki5ewZuq5MVXpaSzoV7XU9Bb8oIBHw%3D&reserved=0
    indicating an individual is identifiable for 50-150 favorite sites,
    "no exposure of any identifying information" is a meaningless phrase.

    Sincerely
    Ushnish Sengupta

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    Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:04:36 -0400
    From: Deen Freelon <dfreelon at gmail.com>
    To: "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
    Subject: Re: [Air-L] [External] Re: Buying tweets ?
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    Sure, many countries have a right to be forgotten. The US doesn't, and
    AFAIK there's little clear case law that applies to individuals'
    presence in research datasets. If someone asks me to remove their data
    from my datasets, I'm happy to do so, but I'm not willing to
    prospectively monitor Twitter's platform for deletions so that my
    datasets always match what is currently available on Twitter. That is
    technically infeasible for me, and I suspect for many others as well.

    The practicality aspect I mentioned applies also to users. You can ask
    AIR-L members to remove your data, but what assurances do you have that
    they've done so? It's impossible even to check that they've actually
    read your message. Now consider all the other researchers' datasets of
    which your data may be a part--there's no way to even know who to ask.
    And all of this to prevent your data from being one point among
    millions, with no exposure of any identifying information? It's little
    wonder yours is the first data removal request I've ever received, but
    as I said, I'll honor it. /DEEN

    On 9/10/2020 10:49 AM, Stuart Shulman wrote:
    > There is nothing theoretical about checking in real time for
    > deletions. When you study a Tweet's content in the Twitter display, if
    > a Tweet is deleted or an account suspended or deleted, the Tweet will
    > not display. That is real time compliance. We have done it for many
    > years now, all the while advising students and faculty on the
    > ethical?importance of this point.
    >
    > The "right to be forgotten"?is law in many countries, so I am unsure
    > how that is unresolved. Something is either legal or it is not. If
    > anyone reading this has any of my deleted Tweets from my deleted
    > account, the Canadian part of me requests you immediately delete them.
    > If you lack the ability to check for compliance in real time, should
    > you be handling my data and violating my right to be forgotten under
    > the broad banner of research? I have tweeted extensively about acts by
    > a hostile foreign power to game the imminent election. I have recently
    > deleted personal Facebook, YouTube and Twitter accounts. Nobody has
    > any business holding that data. It is unethical.
    >
    > There are various guidelines about legally sharing lists of Tweet IDs
    > for rehydration and replication (something almost never done) versus
    > sharing spreadsheets of complete data extracts or the raw JSON,?which
    > is done all the time in defiance of the Twitter ToS.
    >

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