“…The majority of papers (n = 13) concurred that consent was more ambiguous in public online spaces [8,11] and was an ongoing process requiring continual reflection and communication with participants [4,18,19,23,25,27,30,32,33,35,36,[38][39][40]. Eight papers repeated the BPS assertion that not seeking consent for public domain online data could be justified when the scientific and social value outweighed the associated risk [18,19,23,30,33,36,38,40].…”