A large chunk of the Fediverse was scraped; your posts are being “released”
@amphetamine @tastytea sorry that i misinterpreted the dataset and paper and posted rashly urging caution, lol. i'm just used to people on here going off on stuff like this before checking the set
anyway it might be productive to send a letter to the UMilan IRB too
A large chunk of the Fediverse was scraped; your posts are being “released”
@amphetamine @tastytea "Since the Mastodon user may be unaware of their data be-
ing public and reusable for research purposes we disposed
of the information about the users and we fully anonymized
them by hashing the Mastodon user identifier."
the datafiles they give have intact uri fields so i don't think that helps at all since those have the user in them??
@amphetamine @tastytea okay i'm pretty sure that this is assuming "implicit consent" which is a No No with IRBs. however!!! this may not be the kind of study that "needs" irb review.
it probably violates the GDPR though, and definitely some kind of institutional data ethics policy. i do work collecting behavioral data (with consent!) and we have to be really really careful with that even though it's not even under IRB review so? they could _definitely_ get in trouble if even one person whose stuff got in the scrape were to state that they didn't consent
@amphetamine @tastytea okay, useful links:
research ethics committee of uni milan https://www.unimi.it/en/research/research-lastatale/policies-and-principles/ricerca-e-innovazione-responsabile-rri/research-ethics
page with more about it and contact links (all italian) https://www.unimi.it/en/node/449
2019 code of ethics (it) https://www.unimi.it/sites/default/files/2019-05/Codice%20etico%202019.pdf
2019 code of ethics (en) https://www.unimi.it/sites/default/files/2019-07/Code%20of%20Ethics%20and%20for%20Research%20Integrity%20%28EN%29.pdf
Responding to Fediverse scraping
@er1n @amphetamine @tastytea I just wrote them.
