The Cambridge Analytica affair and Internet-mediated research

EMBO Rep. 2018 Aug;19(8):e46579. doi: 10.15252/embr.201846579. Epub 2018 Jul 2.

Authors

Christophe Olivier Schneble¹, Bernice Simone Elger^{1

2}, David Shaw^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
² University Center for Legal Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
³ Department of Health, Ethics & Society CAPHRI Research Institute, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Abstract

The latest Facebook data breach highlights the need for guidelines for internet‐mediated big‐data research.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Ethics Committees, Research
Ethics, Research
Guidelines as Topic
Internet*
Research*