Applying Ethical Principles to Information and Communication Technology Research: A Companion to the Menlo Report

Dittrich, David; Bailey, Michael; Kenneally, Erin

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2342036

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“…However, according to established ethical principles and guidelines (for example, the British Society of Criminology's statement on ethics [34]), informed consent may not be required when a) the dataset is collected from the Internet and thus it is publicly accessible, and b) the data will be used for research on collective behaviour, without aiming to identify particular members. Where informed consent is not obtained, the role of the REB is particularly important, as this is the oversight mechanism that protects the interests of the research participants [10,34].…”

Section: Ethical Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Proceedings of the 2018 World Wide Web Conference on World Wide Web - WWW '18

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Underground forums allow criminals to interact, exchange knowledge, and trade in products and services. They also provide a pathway into cybercrime, tempting the curious to join those already motivated to obtain easy money. Analysing these forums enables us to better understand the behaviours of offenders and pathways into crime. Prior research has been valuable, but limited by a reliance on datasets that are incomplete or outdated. More complete data, going back many years, allows for comprehensive research into the evolution of forums and their users. We describe CrimeBot, a crawler designed around the particular challenges of capturing data from underground forums. CrimeBot is used to update and maintain CrimeBB, a dataset of more than 48m posts made from 1m accounts in 4 different operational forums over a decade. This dataset presents a new opportunity for large-scale and longitudinal analysis using up-to-date information. We illustrate the potential by presenting a case study using CrimeBB, which analyses which activities lead new actors into engagement with cybercrime. CrimeBB is available to other academic researchers under a legal agreement, designed to prevent misuse and provide safeguards for ethical research. CCS CONCEPTS• Information systems → Web crawling; • Security and privacy → Social aspects of security and privacy;

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Section: Ethical Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…10 This is not an underground forum, and its primary intent is to cater for researchers and malware analysts. However, it has an active forum for sharing malware binaries and has a special section for malware-related tools like anti-debuggers or crypters, which can be abused by malicious actors.…”

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“…The purpose of the initiative was to translate the principles of the Belmont Report (which deals with human subject studies in the medical and social sciences) to the ICT Research context, with possible additions. The companion report [17] to the Menlo report describes example cases and explain how ethical analyses of these cases are performed. Partridge and Allman have made the case for an Ethical Considerations paragraph in Network Measurements publications [18].…”

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confidence: 99%

Ethics and Internet Measurements

Ham

2017

2017 IEEE Security and Privacy Workshops (SPW)

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Over the past decade the Internet has changed from a helpful tool to an important part of our daily lives for most of the world's population. Where in the past the Internet mostly served to look up and exchange information, it is now used to stay in touch with friends, perform financial transactions or exchange other kinds of sensitive information. This development impacts researchers performing Internet measurements, as the data traffic they collect is now much more likely to have some impact on users. Traditional institutions such as Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) or Ethics Committees are not always equipped to perform a thorough review or gauge the impact of Internet measurement studies. This paper examines the impact of this development for Internet measurements and analyses previous cases where Internet measurements have touched upon ethical issues. The paper proposes an early framework to help researchers identify stakeholders and how a network study may impact them. In addition to this, the paper provides advice on creating measurement practices that incorporate ethics by design, and also considers the role of third-party data suppliers in ethical measurement practices.

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“…David and Morley Mao (U. Michigan) designed Mobilyzer with researcher incentives in mind, so it simplifies app development, uses a PlanetLab-like participation model, provides dynamic server-side control of measurement, and has a published privacy policy. 3 Valerio Luconi (U. Pisa) introduced Portolan, a smartphone-based crowd-sourced project to measure wired and wireless infrastructure. The architecture includes a server at the university, proxy devices that act as front ends to handle teams of smartphones, and 300 Android devices running the Portolan app, mostly in the United States and Europe.…”

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“…Given that the international landscape is fragmented, and perceptions are changing around the word, he suggested an approach that would give researchers and IRBs tools (and time) to talk, with basic changes to current processes such as new forms with assistive questions and links to informative background related to a given guideline. Subsequent discussion explored the risk of disaster-driven progress, and the future benefit the community may gain by being prepared for overreactive policy positions; such preparation could include developing guideline document drafts, e.g., [1,5,3]. There was extensive discussion across multiple sessions of privacy models in mobile data, including whether it was possible to transfer some knowledge or processes from the Census Bureau to control use of privacysensitive data.…”

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The 6th Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS-6) Report

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2014

SIGCOMM Comput. Commun. Rev.

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On 26-27 March 2014, CAIDA hosted the sixth Workshop on Active Internet Measurements (AIMS-6) as part of our series of Internet Statistics and Metrics Analysis (ISMA) workshops. As with previous AIMS workshops, the goals were to further our understanding of the potential and limitations of active measurement research and infrastructure in the wide-area Internet, and to promote cooperative solutions and coordinated strategies between academics, industry, policymakers, and funding agencies in the area of active Internet measurement. This year, we explored capabilities and opportunities for network measurement in the wireless domain, and research infrastructure to support it. Participants found the workshop content challengingly diverse, with substantial knowledge exchange regarding the wireless research infrastructure landscape(s) and existing measurement capabilities. But attendees agreed that the conversation was only beginning, and that some challenges merit further discussion, such as finding consensus on standard metrics to measure, and constructing a road map for wireless measurement research infrastructure and activities for the next decade. This report describes topics discussed at the workshop, and summarizes participants' views of priorities for future funding as well as follow-on workshops in this area. Materials related to the workshop are available at http://www.caida.org/workshops/aims/1403/.

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Applying Ethical Principles to Information and Communication Technology Research: A Companion to the Menlo Report

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