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Re WIRED: Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists?
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 11:45:36 +0900
Begin forwarded message: From: Simson Garfinkel <simsong () ACM ORG> Subject: Re: WIRED: Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists? Date: July 26, 2018 at 11:37:38 AM GMT+9 To: USACM-PRIVACY () LISTSERV ACM ORG Reply-To: Simson Garfinkel <simsong () ACM ORG> Here is the response:From: Social Behavioral IRB <sbsirb () northwestern edu <mailto:sbsirb () northwestern edu>> Subject: RE: "A Study of Thousands of Dropbox Projects Reveals How Successful Teams Collaborate" Date: July 25, 2018 at 10:44:34 AM EDT To: Simson Garfinkel <simsong () acm org <mailto:simsong () acm org>>, Social Behavioral IRB <sbsirb () northwestern edu <mailto:sbsirb () northwestern edu>> Cc: Alec Henderson <alec.henderson () northwestern edu <mailto:alec.henderson () northwestern edu>>, Marcella Ann Oliver <m-oliver2 () northwestern edu <mailto:m-oliver2 () northwestern edu>>, Marie E Heffernan <marie.heffernan () northwestern edu <mailto:marie.heffernan () northwestern edu>>, Piper Hawkins-Green <Piper () northwestern edu <mailto:Piper () northwestern edu>> Mr. Garfinkel: I still cannot seem to get access to the article itself but have been following the article commentary in Wired (https://www.wired.com/story/dropbox-sharing-data-study-ethics/ <https://www.wired.com/story/dropbox-sharing-data-study-ethics/> ). The author from Dropbox has stated in that article that the data which were given to the NU researchers was anonymized and could not be reidentified. The methods for the process are not included but in answer to your question, if the data could be reidentified by reasonable means, yes, the study would need to be submitted to the IRB. Any project that has identifiable people at the outset, or in the process, has to be submitted to the IRB. Regards, Kathleen Kathleen E. Murphy, PhD, CIP Manager, Social and Behavioral Research Northwestern University IRB Chambers Hall 600 Foster Street, Rm 234 Evanston, IL 60208 847-467-1723 kemurphy () northwestern edu <mailto:kemurphy () northwestern edu>On Jul 25, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Kisselburgh, Lorraine G <lorraine () purdue edu <mailto:lorraine () purdue edu>> wrote: Here is WIRED reporting on the Dropbox data sharing issue: "Was It Ethical for Dropbox to Share Customer Data with Scientists?" https://www.wired.com/story/dropbox-sharing-data-study-ethics/?mbid=email_onsiteshare <https://www.wired.com/story/dropbox-sharing-data-study-ethics/?mbid=email_onsiteshare> Simson, can you share with the group the responses you received from Northwestern’s IRB and Dropbox? Lorraine Lorraine Kisselburgh lorraine () purdue edu www.lkisselburgh.net Sent from my iPad
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