Fake participants and bots threaten quality of online research data

Recruiting participants for injury and violence-related studies can be challenging. Online qualitative data collection can ...
HUB

For the public, data collection during COVID-19 offers benefits—and poses hazards

The Carey Business School reached out to Fainmesser, who is co-authoring a new working paper that examines the incentives of digital businesses to collect and protect users' information, for more ...
Reuters

Data collection in the EU: troubled waters for U.S. companies

February 25, 2022 - The distance between the United States and Europe is approximately 4,000 miles, but when it comes to laws governing the treatment of online data collection and use, the gulf seems ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Aligning the user data that websites and apps collect with what consumers expect

With the California Consumer Privacy Act now the law, digital media companies are reevaluating their online data collection policies and the procedures they use to ...
Case Western Reserve University

Data Collection

Data collection is the process of gathering and measuring information used for research. Collecting data is one of the most important steps in the research process, and is part of all disciplines ...
Lifehacker

How to Opt Out of Data Collection by Data Brokers

Each time you accept the privacy policies and terms of service on any app or website, there’s a chance some of your data is being sold. Information brokers, also ...
Ars Technica

FTC aims to counter the “massive scale” of online data collection

The Federal Trade Commission has kicked off the rulemaking process for privacy regulations that could restrict online surveillance and punish bad data-security practices. It's a move that some privacy ...
Forbes

Opt-Out Versus Opt-In: How Blockchain Will Change The Data Collection Culture

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writing on the intersection of emerging tech and cultural trends. Apps, search engines and social media networks have a constant ...
Business Wire

Luminati Networks Becomes Bright Data with Focus on Web Transparency and Continuous Innovation

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Luminati Networks has today announced it is to become Bright Data as it takes the next step in its journey to deliver valuable online data to organisations and further support ...
TechCrunch

Data collection isn’t the problem: It’s what companies are doing with it

Data is a company’s most powerful asset. Yet, many businesses cannibalize this valuable asset by selling it to third parties when they should be using it to make their businesses stronger and more ...
Boston College

Online Data Collection

2) At the end of online experiments, each MTurk worker is provided a unique code which they are asked to input into the MTurk survey. They must do this before submitting the Human Intelligence Task ...