[open-science] Privacy and open research data

Mon Feb 18 17:17:42 UTC 2013

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Song, Stephen <stephen.song at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Jenny,
>
> Thanks for your thoughtful reply and for the very useful additional
> resources.  I should preface my remarks by saying these are emerging
> thoughts on my part as I participate with a development research funding
> organisation in thinking through what Open Data means to them.
>
> I fully take your point about the "hard" sciences, if that isn't already
> too loaded an adjective.  There is obviously plenty of research that
> doesn't trigger privacy concerns.  However, if I have learned anything in
> my recent investigation, it is that the boundaries are fuzzier than I
> imagined.  The kind of differential diagnosis process that privacy
> researchers use to infer new information from disparate data sources is
> both remarkable and disturbing at the same time.
>

It would be very useful to have some examples of these.

P.

-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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