[MyData & Open Data] open research data?

Thu May 12 19:08:30 UTC 2016

Sam,

Thanks for bringing attention to this on the listserv. My department has a
very active conversation on this work right now, as do probably many of
your own email/Twitter networks.

An open letter is being crowd-written in response to this research, if
anyone reading would like to edit/sign:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xjSi8gFT8B2jw-O8jhXykfSusggheBl-s3ud2YBca3E/edit

Here are some other nice write-ups about the ethical violations in the
dataset:

https://ironholds.org/blog/when-science-goes-bad-consent-data-and-doubling-down-on-the-internet/

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/70000-okcupid-users-just-had-their-data-published

Best,

Meg Young
@margareteyoung
UW Information School
Tech Policy Lab

On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:18 AM, Sam Smith <s at msmith.net> wrote:

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