Graph showing audience responses to Question
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 8:47 am
Graph showing audience responses to Question
Mentimeter responses to
Q9: All universities require that personal data and related studies go under ethical review. Is the text from tweets personal data?
Personal data requires ethical review. A tweet belarus rcs data is public but could contain data that is personal and hence requires protection. And it’s sometimes pretty easy to reidentify the author of a tweet simply by copying the contents of the tweet into Google. So is Twitter data ever really anonymous, and in how many cases is this high risk of reidentification problematic?
Mentimeter responses to
When I asked my academic audience about this, they recognised this conundrum. The risk of reidentification is high, but the data is public. As with so many data problems, the answer here is context dependent:
Who wrote the tweet?
When did they write it?
Who is collecting the tweet?
What does the collector intend to do with the tweet?
Moreover, who is responsible for determining whether the answers to these questions warrant access to the data? I’ll be tackling these questions in tomorrow’s blog, so tune in again then.
Mentimeter responses to
Q9: All universities require that personal data and related studies go under ethical review. Is the text from tweets personal data?
Personal data requires ethical review. A tweet belarus rcs data is public but could contain data that is personal and hence requires protection. And it’s sometimes pretty easy to reidentify the author of a tweet simply by copying the contents of the tweet into Google. So is Twitter data ever really anonymous, and in how many cases is this high risk of reidentification problematic?
Mentimeter responses to
When I asked my academic audience about this, they recognised this conundrum. The risk of reidentification is high, but the data is public. As with so many data problems, the answer here is context dependent:
Who wrote the tweet?
When did they write it?
Who is collecting the tweet?
What does the collector intend to do with the tweet?
Moreover, who is responsible for determining whether the answers to these questions warrant access to the data? I’ll be tackling these questions in tomorrow’s blog, so tune in again then.