Ethics of studying illegal behaviour
- One hundred dollars and a dead man: Ethical decision making in ethnographic fieldwork (Vanderstaay, 2005)
- All in the name of research (Matthews, 2014)
- The gendered affordances of Craigslist “new-in-town girls wanted” ads (Schwartz & Neff, 2019)
- Consider also: How to avoid writing up the research in a way that would serve as a how-to manual for copycats
- See also: What’s in a (pseudo)name? Ethical conundrums for the principles of anonymisation in social media research (Gerrard, 2020)
- A guide to being an ethical online investigator (Basu, 2021) — The Capitol riot has inspired a new army of amateur sleuths who want to help identify protesters. How can you, an average person, be an ethical digital activist?
Ethics of researching on leaked data
- The OKCupid dataset: A very large public dataset of dating site users (crossposted 11 May 2016)
- Media discourses surrounding ‘non-ideal’ victims: The case of the Ashley Madison data breach (Cross, Parker & Sansom, 2018)
- Every deleted Parler post, many with users’ location data, has been archived (Cameron, 2021)
- See also: Using a fitness app taught me the scary truth about why privacy settings are a feminist issue (Spinks, 2017)
- See also: Fitness tracking app Strava gives away location of secret US army bases (Hern, 2018)
