Gustavo Morales

In that case I vote for an opt-out approach.

I agree with your attitude towards tracing, but I assume the dev is not looking to sell that data, or to participate in marketing. These would be used for simple...

Also, there are *tons* of useful datasets that do not follow similar guidelines. Similarly, the opposite is also true. Tracing has more to do with ethics, not with how useful...

Because to me (the guy who originally proposed to work on this dataset), this is not about tracing people. My code would not trace anyone nor I would sell the...

Exactly. Also, this has becoming lecturing and I prefer to stay out of it. All I am saying is that collecting data is not necessarily unethical, specially if you tell...

Well yes, a privacy policy I agree is totally on point here. That and a notification of data collection. But that alone does not make the act of collecting *anonymous*...

Also, as long as it is anonymous data I don't see it as "highly personal", since you cannot relate this information to any person (like tracing does). The fact that...

As long as they can read (which I am assuming they can), an opt-out approach with a notification is consensual. And if you want to keep discussing this please open...

" ‘Opt-out’ samples are those where participants are contacted *without volunteering* to take part in the research..." If you don't see the difference between that definition and what I have...

Yes but the "without volunteering" part is key to understand my point of view, assuming there is a public policy and a notification of collection. And honestly we are splitting...