July 2, 1999
Scholars Suggest More Scrutiny of Electronic Research With Human Subjects
Social scientists pondering the risks -- and benefits -- of conducting on-line studies with human subjects are warning that people could find themselves "the unwitting subjects of research" to which they had never consented.
Especially as universities acquire data-warehousing and data-mining technologies, survey and other data from Internet research may wind up being used in ways the participants and
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