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it's not research on humans as such. it was intended to be research on organizations, websites large enough to be subject to the law.


I got one of these letters, and the website in question has $0.00 revenue, and an order of magnitude fewer total users than would invoke the users. The linked story here is about someone who got a letter to their personal blog.

The researchers did no (or very poor) screening.


That I agree with. Their collection methodology was clearly inadequate. They should have been more careful who they mailed, even though they did try to be careful it wasn't enough.




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