13.2 Yes…

• Both your personal but also research data could be…
  • …stolen.
  • …get lost (errors, neglect).
  • …destroyed.
• More common than we think… (think of the unreported cases)
• Data_Re-Identification
  • Narayanan, Arvind, and Vitaly Shmatikov. “Robust de-anonymization of large sparse datasets.” Security and Privacy, 2008. SP 2008. IEEE Symposium on. IEEE, 2008. (see paper)
  • Companies using big data apparently did not realize that back then…
• Data is extremely valuable..
  • Value of data (2015)
  • e.g. Medical records (Breaches on the rise)
• Ethics: But the Data Is Already Public (Zimmer 2010)
• Breached data used in research
  • Panama paper
  • Iraq war logs
  • etc.

References

Zimmer, Michael. 2010. “‘But the Data Is Already Public’: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook.” Ethics Inf. Technol. 12 (4): 313–25.