Ethical Considerations when Employing Fake Identities in Online Social Networks for Research.
Online social networks (OSNs) have rapidly become a prominent and widely used service, offering a wealth of personal and sensitive information with significant security and privacy implications. Hence, OSNs are also an important-and popular-subject for research. To perform research based on real-lif...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 20; no. 4; pp. 1027 - 1044 |
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