Should we go back to “data available on request”?
We should be very careful about the confidentiality of data to protect the privacy of research participants.
I like the advantages of sharing data. But maybe not with AI systems.
Ira Hyman
Bots are scraping open data — with risks for identification of participants, p-hacking by bots and more. Is transparency worth these risks? www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
The snowballing ability of artificial intelligence to trawl open data sets has some scientists worried about losing control of their information.
