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This chapter considers the importance of privacy in contemporary research and how best to deal with some of the challenges raised around privacy. It opens with a number of questions about privacy which will be considered in the chapter, including a consideration as to the impact that privacy has on research. Consideration is given to the history of how privacy has been treated (in the West) before looking at key issues of what privacy is and why it is valuable. The current debate focuses on concerns relating to national security, social media, and data analytics, while, looking ahead, the Internet of Things, facial recognition, and the potential for ubiquitous surveillance are raised. Finally, the chapter considers a number of means for managing privacy within the research context: consent, secure storage, anonymization and pseudonymization, and the difficulties that arise when working with groups of people.
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Macnish, K. (2020). Privacy in Research Ethics. In: Iphofen, R. (eds) Handbook of Research Ethics and Scientific Integrity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16759-2_9
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