Digital Trespass: Ethical and Terms-of-Use Violations by Researchers Accessing Data From an Online Patient Community

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Digital Trespass: Ethical and Terms-of-Use Violations by Researchers Accessing Data From an Online Patient Community

What is this about?

This article presents four cases regarding ethical and terms-of-use violations by researchers who carry out social media studies in an online patient research network. The authors offer potential strategies that can be adopted in order to avoid these violations.

For whom is this important?

All stakeholders in research

Other information

When

• 2019

Where

• USA

Virtues & Values

• Transparency
• Honesty
• Respectfulness

Good Practices & Misconduct

• Research misconduct
• Publication ethics
• Data Management
• Consent
• Privacy

Research Area

• LS 07.08 - Health services, health care research
• LS - Life Sciences