Timeline for Ethical implications of using scraped e-mail addresses for survey
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| Aug 3, 2022 at 14:24 | comment | added | deep64blue | From the UK Information Commisioner "If they would not reasonably expect the processing ... their interests are likely to override your legitimate interests." | |
| Aug 3, 2022 at 7:11 | comment | added | lupe | also not a lawyer - but I'd argue it definitely isn't covered legally under legitimate interest - it almost certainly doesn't meet the requirements from the "three tests", and there's no consent. I think you could possibly get away with the research exemption, but that includes organizational safeguards for the data, and proof your research is legitimate. I'd argue you'd have to go through an ethics review for this, and show excellent data security | |
| Aug 2, 2022 at 12:39 | comment | added | MSalters | @FedericoPoloni: "Legitimate interest" is far too frequently abused. There is no existing relation between the OP and the proposed audience, no expectation of this email being sent, no benefit to the receiver, and the necessity test also looks rather iffy. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 22:02 | comment | added | Federico Poloni | IANAL, but I think this kind of use should actually be ok in EU under the "legitimate interest" GDPR clause. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 18:30 | comment | added | bta | @GrahamNye Even if your university isn't explicitly blocked, you could end up being perceived as "that school that spams people" and harm your entire institution's reputation. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 15:44 | history | edited | Neinstein | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2022 at 15:29 | comment | added | Graham Nye | @academic_burner "will surely put your e-mail into every spam filter ever" Not only may it put your individual email address into spam lists, if you use your university address it may result in your institution being blocked, to the annoyance of its authorities. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 9:51 | history | edited | Neinstein | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2022 at 9:45 | history | edited | Neinstein | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 1, 2022 at 9:43 | comment | added | Neinstein | Also, take the point of view of the opposite side: the receivers. I'm pretty sure you're not the first one to conduct a survey involving scientists. A 100k dataset of researcher email address would be very tempting for any such research. Would these 100k scientists be happy to get daily "not-spam" en-masse survey requests, like the one you want to send? And do they get it? Nope: there are definitely strict measures to prevent this from happening. | |
| Aug 1, 2022 at 9:33 | history | answered | Neinstein | CC BY-SA 4.0 |